Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,080,960 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($549,947). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What United Way of Beaver County does
Mission
The mission of the United Way of Beaver County is to mobilize the caring power of the community, in turn fostering improvement in people's lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization mobilizes the community financial support for its memberagencies, who serve the general population in a variety of ways with the intention of improving lives. In addition to its campaign effors, the allocation and agency relations program plays a crucial role in its mission. The program involves vetting, monitoring, and developing relationships with nonprofit organizations to idetnify and approve member agencies, which in turn receives support from united way through funding and collaboration to address community needs. United way also started a new fundraising campaign for asset limited income contrained employed (alice) households. In 2024, the united way gave over $400,000 in grants and over $110,000 in alice mini-grants.
$205,995 spentof which $613,079 as grants$40,274 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $205,995.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $951k to $1.3M (+34%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Mary Lou Harju
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $188k → $321k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 39% · 2019 39% · 2020 34% · 2021 36% · 2022 35% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,080,960 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ($549,947). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,080,960 in grants to UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY?
- THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $549,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 32 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing