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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LACKAWANNA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE | $5,000 |
| IHM SISTERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SCRANTON UNICO FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SCRANTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| DRESS FOR SUCCESS | $2,800 |
| NEPA LONG TERM CARE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| SCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC | $2,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - KINGSTON | $2,500 |
| CODY BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- MUMarywood University2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
- WIWRC INC5× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +89%
- LCLACKAWANNA COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -11%
- SPSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +0%
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 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…
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.
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.
Vna-hhmo, inc. provides a continuum of care with comfort and compassion for all residents of lackawanna county, pa and surrounding areas.
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…
Provide emergency medical services.
Public lending library
Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 93 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 Marywood University ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- 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 SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD HOSE COMPANY 1 ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
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: 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
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 Fidelity D & D Charitable 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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