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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.

$761k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$499kArts & Culture$377kPhilanthropy$362kHuman Services$347kEducation$219kFood & Nutrition$131kEnvironment$126kYouth Development$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $418k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA & WAYNE$100,000
CHOP$60,000
OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES$50,000
ST VLADIMIR'S UKRAINIAN CHURCH$50,000
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE$45,000
WVIA PUBLIC MEDIA$40,000
LACKAWANNA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM$36,000
PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA$32,000
WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEASTERN$25,000
COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY$25,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
NATIVITYMIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON$20,000
COOPERAGE PROJECT$20,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $50k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $45k → 13%OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $10k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $45k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $45k → 13%ALL ONE CHARITIES: $50k → 15%OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY: $10k → 13%ALL ONE CHARITIES: $25k → 15%ALL ONE CHARITIES: $5k → 15%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 28 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$1.7M
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-7%

Still filing today

61%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOUSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $135k · revenue +0%
  • CC
    COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +380%
  • NP
    NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES
    one grant, 2023 · $176k · revenue +14%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • PS
    PENN STATE NURSING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Scranton-Lackawanna Resources Development Corporation

To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county

Human Services
2
Center in the Woods Inc

The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.

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3
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Center for Community Action

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
7
Breathe Pennsylvania

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.

Health
8
Schuylkill Community Action

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…

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9
Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health
10
Keystone Hospice

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…

Human Services
11
Feeding Pennsylvania

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…

Philanthropy
12
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $176,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIESUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA & WAYNE: $130,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA & WAYNELACKAWANNA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM: $111,500 · OtherLACKAWANNA COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEMUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND: $110,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA ANDST VLADIMIR'S UKRAINIAN CHURCH: $105,000 · OtherST VLADIMIR'S UKRAINIAN CHURCHCHOP: $65,000 · OtherWRC INC: $59,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $50,000 · Other+48 more: $622,630 · Other+48 moreFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $135,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOU…ALLONE CHARITIES: $80,000 · Human ServicesALLONE CHARITI…OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $70,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH - CEN…THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTER…PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $42,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONI…SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $42,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON SH…THE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COOPERA…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,320 · Arts & CultureSPRING HILLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $100,000 · HealthEQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $25,000 · HealthFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthINDIVIDUAL ABILITIES IN MOTION INC: $6,000 · HealthCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $121,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY IN MOTION: $5,000 · EnvironmentWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementABINGTON HEIGHTS CIVIC LEAGUE INC: $23,000 · Education
Other$1,429,130Human Services$295,000Arts & Culture$239,320Health$146,000Environment$126,000Community Improvement$85,000Education$23,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $176,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $135,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $121,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetALLONE CHARITIES: $80,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $70,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWRC INC: $59,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSAFETY NET: $47,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $42,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $42,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $25,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetABINGTON HEIGHTS CIVIC LEAGUE INC: $23,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $22,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING HILLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIVIDUAL ABILITIES IN MOTION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE OF SCRANTON CO PAUL ARDUINO: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetALLIED SERVICES PERSONAL CARE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • 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 KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗

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.

Scranton Area Foundat…The Hawk Family Found…Moses Taylor Foundati…Walter L Schautz Foun…Margaret Briggs Found…The Harry and Jeanett…The Ross Family Found…Allone CharitiesRobert H Spitz Founda…The Honesdale Nationa…The Willary FoundationAllone Foundation
Scranton Area Foundation IncPA53.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eureka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eureka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Eureka Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Eureka Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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