· Public charity
Community Services for Children Inc
Csc prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and life through innovative, comprehensive, leading edge services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 210 grants below total $1,867,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,727,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $860,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k168 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k40 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC | $94,500 |
| KUEHG CORP KINDERCARE EDUCATION LLC | $66,000 |
| RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO | $43,500 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF NEPA INC | $34,500 |
| LIFE SPAN DAY CARE INC | $26,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES INC TREASURE HOUSE | $26,000 |
| SAEED FAMILY CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY | $22,000 |
| TGPC FOR C & L OF ST PAUL EVANGELICAL L | $20,500 |
| GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA | $20,500 |
| A CHILDS WORLD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC | $19,500 |
| CENTRAL BUCKS FAMILY YMCA | $17,500 |
| SCHOOLHOUSE LEARNING CENTER INC | $17,500 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC | $17,000 |
| DISCOVER THE WORLD CHILDRENS CENTER INC | $17,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
350 repeat relationships — 195 still active in FY2025, 155 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +27%
- TGTHE GROWING PLACE CTR FOR CARE AND LEARN OF SALEM-ST PAUL6× · 2017–2025 · $271k · revenue +59%
- YOYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY6× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- CCCREATIVE CRAYON'S CHILD CARE LLCone grant, 2017 · $56k
- BLBERKSHIRE LEARNING CENTERS INCone grant, 2017 · $46k
- PCPREMIER CHILD CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $36k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
The greater morristown ymca, founded in 1874, in the christian traditions of honesty, respect, caring, and service to others, seeks to enhance the character and the quality of life for all people in the community by providing activities to…
Provide childcare to working parents, promote early childhood education.
We offer a wide variety of programs and services, providing opportunities for adults and children to improve in spirit, mind and body. the ymca has childcare and preschool for children. we also have fitness classes, swim lessons, and…
The ymca strengthen's the community by providing quality programs that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we are a y without walls model. as a community based service provider, we remain flexible -…
Provide child care services to the community for children ages 16 weeks to 12 years.
Programs to benefit proper development of children including operation of child day care center.
Our mission is to provide a safe, nurturing, and educational environment for children while their parents are working, in school, or in job training programs.
Provide a nurturing, safe environment where children can explore and learn about their world. by recognizing each child as a unique individual, children will learn to respect others, be kind, cooperate, and share while developing a strong…
To provide an individualized, age-appropriate, creative learning environment for children 2 to 5 years of age, with a variety of learning and weekly music, gym, nature center and library classes, as well as optional enrichment programs.…
Mercyhurst child learning center dedicates itself to the creation of an environment where children, educators, families, and the community work together for the care and development of the whole child. committing itself to each childs…
Provide for each child, the emotional,intellectual, social and physical development, in a caring,loving and secure atmosphere or environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Scranton and the most unlike its peers is Lehigh Valley Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 437 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROWING PLACE CTR FOR CARE AND LEARN OF SALEM-ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN DAY CARE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DANVILLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH POCONO PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Allone Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Allone Charities · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · The Hawk Family Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Services for Children Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.