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UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY

EIN 25-1053091 ERIE, PA

Revenue 2024
$8,083,340
Expenses 2024
$5,918,066

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70Z
Classification
1000
Street
650 EAST AVE STE 200

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Laurie B Root

    President

    Total calculated
    $178,672
    From this org
    $159,382
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,290
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $159,382
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $8,814
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,476
    Filer's total
    $178,672

  • Julie Chacona

    CDO

    Total calculated
    $114,523
    From this org
    $99,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,381
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Michael Jaruszewicz

    Senior VP

    Total calculated
    $108,633
    From this org
    $98,572
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,061
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Sally Opferbeck

    VP of Fin & Adm

    Total calculated
    $100,452
    From this org
    $89,832
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,620
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • Patricia Kennedy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anita Kuchcinski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Seth Carter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Weislogel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katie Jones

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark J Kuhar

    GovernanceChair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • April Murphy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Brian J Polito

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rhonda Matthews

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa NeCastro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Otteni

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Zaphiris

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Corey Cook

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina L Bernatowicz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Surkala

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robin Scheppner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chrisitine Drabic

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Slomski

    Finance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $8,083,340
    Expenses
    $5,918,066
    Contributions
    $5,829,347
    Grants paid
    $1,079,676
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $12,482,664
    Expenses
    $5,219,102
    Contributions
    $10,357,733
    Grants paid
    $1,008,848
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,093,880
    Expenses
    $5,378,722
    Contributions
    $4,491,728
    Grants paid
    $1,152,103

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.