Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,431 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($401,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What United Way of Bucks County does
Mission
United Way of Bucks County creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community & agency services: resources are directed to the planning and coordination of services that support individuals and nonprofits. This includes advocacy, distribution of gifts in-kind, compiling and distributing community resource guides, volunteer recruitment and referral, and connecting businesses and groups with service projects and nonprofits that need help.
$7,545,814 spent88% of program spendingCommunity impact: these funds are invested in convening groups to help identify and target problems in the community. Funds help build collaborative efforts and improve the systems that serve our most vulnerable residents. Community impact partners include government, businesses, faith-based groups, educational organizations, nonprofits, and individuals.
$724,591 spent8% of program spendingCommunity investments & nonprofit grants: these funds are distributed to and through nonprofit agencies and collaborative groups. Funds are aimed at helping people with short-term, basic needs (e.g. Shelter, transportation, child care, food, etc.) and creating lasting change. Funded programs focus on building financial self-sufficiency, improving family stability, creating access to early education, and improving people's health.
$222,024 spentof which $222,024 as grants3% of program spendingFunds distribution: these funds are invested in human service planning,as well as allocating the dollars raised in the annual campaign. Fundsare used to help identify the most effective and cost-effective humanservice solutions, build or vet program evaluation plans, and ensure ahigh and demonstrable return on investment for all funded programs.
$72,597 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,565,026.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $4.1M (+21%).
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: 2017 22% · 2018 38% · 2019 41% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 53% · 2023 55% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Marissa Christie
President & CEO
Board chair
Karen Johnson-Susko
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $98k → $348k.
11 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 BUCKS COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 BUCKS COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
73% 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 BUCKS COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 66% · 2019 54% · 2020 15% · 2021 46% · 2022 27% · 2023 16% — 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
52% of UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
78% of UNITED WAY OF BUCKS 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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 BUCKS COUNTY has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$220k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF BUCKS 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF BUCKS 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 BUCKS COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,431 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($401,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $2,547,431 in grants to UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF BUCKS COUNTY?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $401,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF BUCKS 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 60 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