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VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY

VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,179 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($104,498). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$9.9M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$122k
Net assets
$9.3M
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Visiting Nurse Association of Erie County does

Mission

The mission of vna of erie county is to provide quality, cost effective home health care services to residents of erie county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Nursing and home health care - since 1906, vna of erie county has been providing professional and compassionate skilled home health care services to home-bound patients in the erie area. These services augment the institutional care of hospitals and nursing homes, providing a seamless plan of patient care based on the individual's needs and the physician's directions. Home health care services are delivered in the comfort of the patient's residence, anywhere in the erie county.

    $4,287,844 spent$5,984,015 earned by the program
    62% of program spending
  2. Medicare certified hospice - hospice care, sometimes referred to as end-of-life care, is specialized care that provides support for the terminally ill and their loved ones during the final stage of an advanced illness. Hospice care is designed to focus more on patient comfort and quality of life than finding a cure. The goal of hospice care is to help patients live each day as fully as possible.

    $2,575,558 spent$3,594,388 earned by the program
    38% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,863,402.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($6.2M) Expenses 100 ($6.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 131 ($8.1M) Expenses 111 ($7.2M) Net assets 206 ($3.6M)2020 Revenue 119 ($7.3M) Expenses 116 ($7.5M) Net assets 197 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 136 ($8.4M) Expenses 108 ($7.0M) Net assets 276 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 125 ($7.7M) Expenses 106 ($6.8M) Net assets 324 ($5.7M)2023 Revenue 121 ($7.5M) Expenses 105 ($6.8M) Net assets 360 ($6.3M)2024 Revenue 157 ($9.7M) Expenses 118 ($7.6M) Net assets 475 ($8.3M)2025 Revenue 162 ($9.9M) Expenses 134 ($8.7M) Net assets 532 ($9.3M)
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Revenue (162)Expenses (134)Net assets (532)

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 $7.5M to $9.4M (+26%).

$5.3M
$6.5M
$8.1M
$8.0M
$7.4M
$7.5M
$9.4M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$326k
’18
$860k
’19
−$163k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$853k
’22
$625k
’23
$2.0M
’24
$1.2M
’25
3.2
months of
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

James Y Lin Do

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed911111315141414
Joined·+2+0+3+2+2+6+4
No longer listed·0010364
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $13k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
1
2
2
2
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE 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

VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY.

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

86% of VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
63%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 15 related entities

  • Millcreek Health System (Mhs) · exempt
  • Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine · exempt
  • Millcreek Community Hospital · exempt
  • Medical Associates of Erie · exempt
  • Millcreek Manor · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY?
VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,179 to it, the largest being ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($104,498). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $122,179 in grants to VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY?
ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $104,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF ERIE 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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