Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,526 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ($648,743). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $992k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $613k
What United Way of Southern Chester County does
Mission
Our mission is to improve people's lives by mobilizing the caring power and resources of our community; to provide local non-profit agencies with needed financial, professional, and strategic support;and to ensure that contributions fund programs that effectively move people from crisis to independence. We accomplish this by allocating funds raised to programs reviewed and selected by volunteer panels for their effective performance and measurable results. Other service programs are identifying unmet needs and creating pilot programs to address those needs, providing information and referral services for people in need, mentoring nonprofit agencies, and coordinating volunteer activities. We do all this while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in ethics and integrity to ensure success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Annual allocation of grants to non-profit agencies serving the human needs of southern chester county residents. These grants move people from crisis to independence and promote stability/sustainability around health and aging concerns.
$650,000 spentof which $650,000 as grants73% of program spendingDesignations to various non-profit agencies through donor directives.
$8,287 spentof which $8,287 as grants1% of program spendingIn house programs - community impact, mentoring agencies, volunteerism, information and referral.
$230,527 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $888,814.
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 $1.4M to $1.6M (+18%).
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: 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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.
Chief executive
Darcie Martin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $47k → $315k.
15 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
95% 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 SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 27% · 2019 75% · 2020 46% · 2021 44% · 2022 19% · 2023 36% — growing more concentrated.
“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
58% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
66% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY'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 $853k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SOUTHERN CHESTER 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 SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,526 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE ($648,743). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,520,526 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF DELAWARE is the largest funder on record, with $648,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHESTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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