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Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$95kHuman Services$85kCommunity Improvement$54kHousing & Shelter$24kFood & Nutrition$24kHealth$22kReligion$19kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY$25,000
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE$10,000
NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON$5,000
IHM SISTERS FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE$5,000
SCRANTON UNICO FOUNDATION$3,500
SCRANTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS$2,800
SCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL$2,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - KINGSTON$2,500
SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC$2,500
NEPA LONG TERM CARE ASSOCIATION$2,500
COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$2,500
CODY BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%SHANTHI PROJECT: $2k → 11%BRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $2k → 15%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1k → 15%FAMILY CONNECTION - EASTON: $2k → 11%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES: $4k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 13%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $3k → 15%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $3k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 11%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%VICTIM'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%CODY BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%CODY BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $1k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES: $1k → 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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$233k · 21 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
59

Total granted

$233k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+14%

Still filing today

62%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MU
    Marywood University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • WI
    WRC INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +89%
  • LC
    LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -11%
  • GH
    GREENWOOD HOSE COMPANY 1graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +137%
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 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
3
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

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4
Human Resources Center Inc

Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.

Human Services
5
The Learning Community of Pennsylvania

To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.

Human Services
6
Saucon Valley Community Center

A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.

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7
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc

To provide a variety of social services to individuals and families residing in northeastern pennsylvania, including, but not limited to, counseling, provision of goods, and provision of housing.

Human Services
8
Visiting Nurse Association and Home Health Maintenance Organization

Vna-hhmo, inc. provides a continuum of care with comfort and compassion for all residents of lackawanna county, pa and surrounding areas.

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9
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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10
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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11
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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12
The Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou

Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hazleton Art League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 93 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WRC INC: $33,000 · OtherWRC INCGREATER WYOMING VALLEY YMCA: $15,000 · OtherGREATER WYOMING VALLEY YMCAWEINBERG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BA: $15,000 · OtherWEINBERG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BAFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $11,000 · OtherIHM SISTERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherCOACHES VS CANCER OF NEPA: $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $9,150 · Other+58 more: $128,800 · Other+58 moreMarywood University: $50,000 · EducationMarywood UniversityLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationLACKAWANNA COLLEGEJOHNSON COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationJOHNSON COLLEGE+2 more: $3,000 · EducationTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesCODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $4,500 · Human ServicesGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $2,000 · Human ServicesSHANTHI PROJECT: $2,000 · Human Services+6 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR EASTON INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterVALLEY IN MOTION: $11,000 · EnvironmentSLATER FAMILY NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $3,600 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER PITTSTON SANTA SQUAD I: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$241,950Education$78,000Human Services$31,000Housing & Shelter$22,000Environment$11,000Youth Development$7,100Philanthropy$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarywood University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWRC INC: $33,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HARBOR EASTON INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $11,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $9,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD HOSE COMPANY 1: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJOHNSON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSLATER FAMILY NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCRANTON UNICO FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRANDONS FOREVER HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHANTHI PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShareCare Faith in Action: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCRANTON TOMORROW: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER PITTSTON SANTA SQUAD I: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAZLETON ART LEAGUE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Villa Nursing Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Easton Development Partnership: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP LACKAWANNA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds WRC INC ↗
  • Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD HOSE COMPANY 1 ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SLATER FAMILY NETWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SCRANTON UNICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES ↗

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.

The Hawk Family Found…Scranton Area Foundat…Margaret Briggs Found…Moses Taylor Foundati…William G McGowan Cha…Allone FoundationPpl FoundationAllone CharitiesUnited Way of the Gre…The Luzerne FoundationWalter L Schautz Foun…Lehigh Valley Communi…
The Hawk Family FoundationPA38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hawk Family Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Allone Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Allone Charities · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Luzerne Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community 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 Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fidelity D & D Charitable 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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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