United Way of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, PA · EIN 23-1672348. Reported 60 grants totalling $1,966,510 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Pennsylvania, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 31 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,882. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $43,390; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $195,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $15,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pocono Mountains United Way | Stroudsburg, PA | $230,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Union Mission of Latrobe Inc | Latrobe, PA | $188,610 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Carlisle Cares | Carlisle, PA | $143,390 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Center for Community Action | Everett, PA | $141,736 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Lehigh Conference of Churches | Allentown, PA | $127,764 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Union Snyder Community Action Agency | Selinsgrove, PA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Servants to All | Pottsville, PA | $102,204 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley | Allentown, PA | $93,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Lancaster County | Lancaster, PA | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Clinton County Housing Coalition | Lock Haven, PA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Bucks County | Levittown, PA | $64,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Womens Help Center Inc | Johnstown, PA | $58,770 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Third Street Alliance for Women and Children | Easton, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Valley Youth House | Bethlehem, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Central Susquehanna Opportunities Inc | Shamokin, PA | $49,620 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Way of York County | York, PA | $47,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Tableland Services Inc | Somerset, PA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Housing Transitions Inc | State College, PA | $37,800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bradford County Humane Society | Ulster, PA | $36,750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| New Bethany Inc | Bethlehem, PA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mifflin-Juniata Regional Services Corporation | Yeagertown, PA | $27,894 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Next Step Center | Somerset, PA | $27,765 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blair County Community Action Program | Altoona, PA | $27,764 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Berks County | Reading, PA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| County of Franklin | Chambersburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Promise of Monroe County Inc | Stroudsburg, PA | $17,764 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mifflin Juniata County Human Services Department | Lewistown, PA | $15,179 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Centre County United Way | State College, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lycoming-Clinton Counties Commission for Community Action | Williamsport, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of the Southern Alleghenies | Johnstown, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Main Link | Towanda, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
12 of 31 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 19 of 31 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $62,500 | $9,250 |
| 2022 | 5 | $45,000 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $259,000 | $17,764 |
| 2024 | 15 | $740,600 | $40,000 |
| 2025 | 19 | $859,410 | $37,800 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,882 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of Pennsylvania's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 19 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 240 N Third Street 10TH Floor 10, Harrisburg, PA, 17101.
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