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UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,067,405 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,015,950). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $106M
What United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey does
Mission
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community resiliency - the impact fund helps our neighbors meet their most basic needs - food, shelter and safety.
$3,342,299 spentof which $2,856,136 as grants21% of program spendingFinancial empowerment - the impact fund empowers individuals and families to save more by building foundations for lifelong financial stability including financial literacy and asset development.
$1,573,075 spentof which $1,554,100 as grants10% of program spendingCapacity building - the impact fund empowers nonprofit partners by ensuring they have the resources and tools to succeed.
$1,197,860 spentof which $515,582 as grants8% of program spendingOther program services
$9,247,817 spentof which $5,422,201 as grants$2,184,980 earned by the program58% of program spendingEarly learning - the impact fund helps pave the way for improving the quality of education from at the earliest age.
$464,192 spentof which $362,450 as grants3% of program spendingCareer pathways - the impact fund empowers working adults to earn more by building foundations for lifelong financial stability including job skills.
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,825,243.
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 2020 to 2021, from $101M to $139M (+38%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 5% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
John Salveson
Board member, board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $885k → $5.2M.
22 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from 24 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of New Jersey); $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 11% · 2021 85% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
70% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY is better cushioned than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $203k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$203k
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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,067,405 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,015,950). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $48,067,405 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $21,015,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 125 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