Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC
UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,611,592 to it, the largest being 1889 FOUNDATION INC ($4,759,485). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What United Way of the Southern Alleghenies Inc does
Mission
The mission of the united way of the laurel highlands (the "organization"), a nonprofit voluntary health and welfare organization, is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. We build civic infrastructure around shared community goals, with evidence-based outcomes, and collaborative actions that are sustainable. We partner with many diverse individuals and organizations that come together to solve complex social problems and provide needed services in cambria and somerset counties in south western pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The united way of the laurel highlands (uwlh), serving cambria and somerset counties, has most recently been working to build a civic infrastructure around shared community goals, collaborative actions, evidence-based outcomes, and investment and sustainability. They evaluate, measure, and report to the community the positive change that occurs around trgeted social change initiatives. Uwlh's focus is on several long-term community social change initiatives as identified by the 2011 community needs assessment. They are: early childhood development, parental engagement, and youth drug & alcohol prevention. The top three social change initiative goals are: 1. Preparing all children socially, emotionally, and academically for kindergarten; 2. Increasing parental knowledge of child development and care, and; 3. Preventing substance abuse among our youth. Uwlh partners with many diverse local organizations that come together to solve these complex social problems and provide needed services in cambria and somerset counties. Specific evidence-based programming introduced and/or expanded in cambria and somerset counties to address the social change initiatives are: nurse- family…
$827,327 spentof which $709,092 as grants44% of program spendingCommunity outreach services for health and human services that are available to residents in cambria and somerset counties
$154,924 spent8% of program spendingEmergency food and shelter programs provided funding to various food pantries and shelters in cambria county.
$268,793 spentof which $228,790 as grants14% of program spendingCommunity impact the united way of the laurel highlands works to identify community needs, fund solutions to community problems and measure results of our community impact. Through our fundraising efforts many program and services are supported. Expenses 132,177, including grants of -0-. Revenues -0-. Agency designations achievements united way of the laurel highlands honors individual donor requests to designate their contributions to any 501(c)(3) agency with health and human service programs. United ways around the united states perform this service for agencies as a courtesy to the individual donors. Expenses 27,833 including grants of 27,833. Revenues -0-.
$643,273 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,894,317.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $3.6M (+25%).
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 16% · 2018 31% · 2019 17% · 2020 15% · 2021 32% · 2022 25% · 2023 48% · 2024 36% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $622k → $595k.
7 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 88% · 2021 90% · 2022 83% · 2023 85% — 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
50% of UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $281k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$281k
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 THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,611,592 to it, the largest being 1889 FOUNDATION INC ($4,759,485). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $5,611,592 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC?
- 1889 FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,759,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN ALLEGHENIES INC 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 36 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing