Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,899 to it, the largest being AIRIE KNIPEL HARRY V AND J WILLIAM WAREHIME FOUNDATION ($725,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What York County Economic Alliance does
Mission
Ycea drives york county's economic growth by leveraging the collaboration, resources, and expertise needed to create sustainable prosperity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ycea has developed programs for business retention and expansion through a statewide economic development tool focused solely on business retention and job creation; business and project financing including marketing, packaging, and administering federal, state, and local funding programs and grants; and business attraction including site selection and infrastructure assistance, economic/demographic research, local/regional/state networking. Ycea is able to attract business with such programs as workforce development.
Ycea gives access to more than 1,000 businesses representing over 50,000 employees. Membership services help promote the business community and support members to achieve economic development. More than 34 events are offered annually. Ycea allows members to market their organiztion to an extensive range of over 700 business categories throughout the region. There are many ways for members to promote their business. Through the partnership campaign, members may purchase sponsorships to market their business. Members also may promote their business through various publications. Ycea gives members a voice to be heard on issues facing small and large businesses. The business advocacy committee works on members' behalf to take action on legislative and education issues that affect ycea members. Our business advocacy network connects members with elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels. Members have the opportunity to network through luncheons, trips, and the economics club.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $3.7M (+44%).
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 40% · 2018 36% · 2019 34% · 2020 54% · 2021 81% · 2022 41% · 2023 43% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $143k → $66k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $553k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Partnership for Economic Development of York County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE’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
YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 68% · 2020 68% · 2021 94% · 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
100% of YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $392k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- York County Economic Development Co · exempt
- York County Chamber of Commerce · exempt
- Main Street York Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: 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 YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
- YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,519,899 to it, the largest being AIRIE KNIPEL HARRY V AND J WILLIAM WAREHIME FOUNDATION ($725,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,519,899 in grants to YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE?
- AIRIE KNIPEL HARRY V AND J WILLIAM WAREHIME FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $725,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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