Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Essa Bank & Trust Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $320k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Essa Bank & Trust Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Scranton Area Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Essa Bank & Trust Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $320k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 45
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Essa Bank & Trust Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $373k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $320k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $767k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.6M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $1.8M | 73% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $741k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $891k | 84% |
| FY2017 | 44 | $852k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe County Historical Association Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 48% |
| Northampton County Area Community College Foundation | $539,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated | $380,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Developmental Educational Services Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 94% |
| East Stroudsburg University Foundation | $114,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Pocono Environmental Education Center Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Eastern Monroe Public Library | $99,998 | 3 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe County | $97,512 | 2 | 2% |
| Animal Welfare Society of Monroe | $80,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Stroudsburg United Methodist Church | $80,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Essa Bank & Trust Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Allone Charities · The Century Fund Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · Peoples Security Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Essa Bank & Trust Foundation
- How much does Essa Bank & Trust Foundation give?
- Essa Bank & Trust Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $320,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Essa Bank & Trust Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (41%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Essa Bank & Trust Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Monroe County Historical Association Inc ($2.0M), Northampton County Area Community College Foundation ($539k), Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated ($380k).
- Does Essa Bank & Trust Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Essa Bank & Trust Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Essa Bank & Trust Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ppl Foundation, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley.
- Where is Essa Bank & Trust Foundation based?
- Essa Bank & Trust Foundation is based in PA.
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