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Eureka Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $418k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA & WAYNE | $100,000 |
| CHOP | $60,000 |
| ST VLADIMIR'S UKRAINIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $45,000 |
| WVIA PUBLIC MEDIA | $40,000 |
| LACKAWANNA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $36,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA | $32,000 |
| COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEASTERN | $25,000 |
| WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| COOPERAGE PROJECT | $20,000 |
| NATIVITYMIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON | $20,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +28% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 21 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOUSE3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +0%
- CCCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +380%
- NPNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIESone grant, 2023 · $176k · revenue +14%
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2024 · $50k
- PSPENN STATE NURSING PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.
To promote interest in an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts. to conduct festivals of the arts. to plan and conduct other programs which will advance the arts and improve an appreciation for and enjoyment of the arts.
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Breathe pennsylvania's mission is to empower western pennsylvanians to breathe better and live healthier through education and awareness of lung health in our community.
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Feeding pennsylvania is the partner state association of feeding america food banks. it is our mission to promote and aid our members in securing food and other resources to reduce hunger and food insecurity for their communities and…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties and the most unlike its peers is Safety Net. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 76 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
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 UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLONE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETY NET ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds EQUINES FOR FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEIGHTS CIVIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Ross Family Foundation · Allone Charities · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The Willary Foundation · Allone Foundation
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 Eureka Foundation 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.
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