United Way of Mercer County

Analysis

United Way of Mercer County is a registered charity in United States, based in Hermitage, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1957, 69 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2024, United Way of Mercer County reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.4m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2024, income grew from $1.2m to $1.6m (+42%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 48%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, United Way of Mercer County sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Schweitzer Family Foundation ($1.6m), Owen County Community Foundation ($1.6m) and Sundt Foundation ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 95% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $616k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $159k, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 158 employees.