Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY
UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,919,863 to it, the largest being BENCO FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA COHEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($549,437). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $31M
What United Way of Wyoming Valley does
Mission
To impact lives - today, tomorrow, and forever
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through the United Way of Wyoming Valley's poverty to possibility initiative and other initiatives in susquehanna county and berwick, the organization invests in programs and services to help at-risk children enter kindergarten ready to learn and move through school and beyond graduation with confidence; to help at-risk individuals and families achieve greater financial stability; and to help at-risk children and families achieve good health and avoid risky behaviors. The organization also works to provide access to food, shelter and other essential services for individuals, families and youth who face threats to their immediate well being.
$1,838,939 spent19% of program spendingPa department of health hiv contract - state and federal funds are allocated to United Way of Wyoming Valley for a variety of hiv/aids services in the six county region of northeastern pa. These services include providing housing assistance and subcontracting with several agencies to provide hiv prevention services as well as hiv case management services. Through medical case management clients may also receive a variety of patient services including; medical care, dental care, housing assistance, transportation assistance, emergency financial assistance, and several additional supportive services. Approximately 360 individuals receive hiv care and prevention services through the assistance provided with these funds.
$6,157,727 spentof which $6,888,443 as grants64% of program spendingTax credit programs - United Way of Wyoming Valley is an approved recipient by pennsylvania department of community and economic development to receive the following four types of eitc tax credits: pre-kindergarten, k-12 scholarship (so), opportunity scholarship (ostc) educational improvement (eio). By donating to United Way of Wyoming Valley through one of these programs, a company may be eligible to receive a tax credit for their donation. Some pre-k and eio scholarships are included in the grants amount described in 4a. The opportunity scholarship and the k-12 scholarship programs provide scholarships to students from limited income families to assist with the cost of a private or religious education.
Donor designated gifts - contributions to united way that donors direct to specific 501c3 agencies
Community impact and other program services
$1,563,406 spent16% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,560,072.
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 $20M to $26M (+31%).
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 23% · 2018 28% · 2019 40% · 2020 54% · 2021 47% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% · 2024 66% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sara Peperno
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 21 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $433k → $762k.
11 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $1.5M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Luzerne Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 WYOMING VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 34% · 2019 13% · 2020 16% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 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
63% of UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY'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
74% of UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $771k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 WYOMING VALLEY has grown faster 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 WYOMING VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $451k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$451k
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 WYOMING VALLEY
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
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 WYOMING VALLEY: 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 WYOMING VALLEY?
- UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,919,863 to it, the largest being BENCO FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA COHEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($549,437). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $4,919,863 in grants to UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY?
- BENCO FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA COHEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $549,437 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY 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 64 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