Funding search · EIN 231556045 · Philadelphia, PA
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 918
- grants reported
- $57.8M
- total given
- 2021–2024
- filing years
- $27,500
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania4 grants · $4.7M
- United Way of Southwestern Pa1 grant · $2.1M
- Uw of Southwestern Pennsylvania1 grant · $1.6M
- Greater Philadelphia Comm Alliance1 grant · $1.5M
- Campaign for Working Families2 grants · $1.4M
- Utility Emergency Services Fund2 grants · $1.2M
- Community Legal Services2 grants · $1.1M
- African Cult All of North America1 grant · $1.0M
- Local Initiatives Support Corp Pa1 grant · $1.0M
- Lakeside Youth Service1 grant · $947,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 918 grants.
- $2.4M
United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Grant
- $2.2M
United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Grant
- $2.1M
United Way of Southwestern Pa · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $1.6M
Uw of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $1.5M
Greater Philadelphia Comm Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $1.0M
African Cult All of North America · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $1.0M
Local Initiatives Support Corp Pa · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $947,000
Lakeside Youth Service · North Wales, PA · 2021
- $921,000
Campaign for Working Families · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $666,000
Utility Emergency Services Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $664,574
Greater Phl Community Alliance · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $637,500
First Up · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $620,375
Campaign for Working Families · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $603,500
Campaign for Working Families · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $589,741
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $576,000
Utility Emergency Services Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $576,000
Utility Emergency Services Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $569,414
Community Legal Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Donor designation/operating grant
- $529,938
African Cultural All of N America · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $521,000
Campaign for Working Families · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $512,408
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $500,000
Community Legal Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $500,000
Local Initiatives Support Corp Phl · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $500,000
Phl Lawyers for Social Equity · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $434,500
Uplift Solutions · Westville, NJ · 2021
- $399,166
Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $397,500
Clarifi · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $395,250
Clarifi · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $362,500
Uplift Solutions · Westville, NJ · 2022
Grant
- $326,695
Drexel University · Phl, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $300,000
Beech Community Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $276,500
Clarifi · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $275,000
Lakeside Youth Services · North Wales, PA · 2022
Grant
- $252,500
Creative Health Services · Pottstown, PA · 2022
Grant
- $252,500
Creative Health Services · Pottstown, PA · 2021
- $250,000
Trustees of University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $244,582
Urban Affairs Coalition · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $240,714
Villanova University · Villanova, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $220,000
Samuel S Fels Fund · Phl, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $202,500
Aclamo · Norristown, PA · 2022
Grant
- $202,500
Maternity Care Coalition · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $202,500
Maternity Care Coalition · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $195,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $182,500
Share Food Program · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $177,751
Defender Association of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $172,500
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $167,500
Philabundance · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $165,000
Urban League of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $162,500
First Up · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $160,000
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership · Cedar Knolls, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
- $160,000
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership · Whippany, NJ · 2023
Operating grant
- $160,000
Uplift Solutions · Westville, NJ · 2023
Operating grant
- $157,500
Benefits Data Trust · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $157,500
Benefits Data Trust · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $157,000
The School District of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $151,690
Beyond Literacy · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $151,690
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coa · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $150,000
American Heart Association · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $150,000
Beech Community Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $150,000
Seachange Capital Partners · New York, NY · 2021
- $148,200
Drexel University · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $147,500
Ywca Tri-County Area · Pottstown, PA · 2022
Grant
- $145,200
Nj 2-1-1 Partnership · Cedar Knolls, NJ · 2021
- $141,600
National Energy Education Dvlpmt Project · Manassas, VA · 2021
- $141,195
Equal Measure · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $140,421
Defender Association of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $136,123
Urban Affairs Coalition (Uac) · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $135,000
Public Health Management Corporation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $133,750
Media Fellowship House · Media, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $133,375
Women'S Opportunities Resource Center · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $130,000
Media Fellowship House · Media, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $130,000
Open Hearth · Spring City, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $130,000
Children First · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Operating grant
- $127,500
Aclamo Family Centers · Norristown, PA · 2021
- $126,636
Rsvp Volunteers · King of Prussia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $126,636
Rsvp · King of Prussia, PA · 2021
- $120,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters Indep Region · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $117,500
Philabundance · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $115,000
Clarifi · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $112,743
Philabundance · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $112,500
Children First · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $112,500
Urban League of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $112,500
Children First · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $112,500
The Urban League of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $111,950
Center for Literacy · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $110,000
Parkside Business and Community in Partnership · Camden, NJ · 2023
Operating grant
- $110,000
Hopeworks 'N Camden · Camden, NJ · 2022
Grant
- $108,300
Parentchild · Mineola, NY · 2021
- $107,500
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $107,500
The Foundation for Delaware County · Media, PA · 2022
Grant
- $107,500
Free Library of Philadelphia Fdn · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $107,500
Share Food Program · Philly, PA · 2021
- $107,500
The Foundation for Delaware County · Media, PA · 2021
- $106,125
Peirce College · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $106,050
Se Asian Mutual Assistance Assocs Coalition · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
- $105,000
Beyond Literacy · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $105,000
Nueva Esperanza · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $105,000
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support
- $103,750
Community Legal Services · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Grant
- $103,200
Reinvestment Fund (the) · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Operating support / donor designated
Who else funds this kind of work
Same state
- Upmc Group1,211 grants · $569.1M
- The William Penn Foundation4,421 grants · $589.0M
- University of Pittsburgh1,460 grants · $577.6M
Similar purposes
- United Way for Southeastern Michigan1,067 grants · $111.5M
- Hca Healthcare Foundation2,734 grants · $68.6M
- Mile High United Way1,661 grants · $76.4M
Similar grant size
- The Ayco Charitable Foundation15,303 grants · $2.05B
- Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral16,278 grants · $1.08B
- Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund19,135 grants · $6.79B
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