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First Federal Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAZLETON INTEGRATION PROJECT | $50,000 |
| CONYNGHAM VALLEY CIVIC CENTER ORGAN | $50,000 |
| POTTSVILLE LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| BRIGHTER JOURNEYS | $25,000 |
| SCHUYKILL HOPE CENTER | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HAZLETON | $15,000 |
| CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| HEIGHTS-TERRACE ELEMENTARY PTA | $10,000 |
| HAZLETON AREA RECREATION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| WEST HAZLETON ELEMENTARY PTA | $10,000 |
| LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| DRUMS PTA | $10,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SIGHT SERVICES | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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 +67% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +94%
- DSDowntown Shenandoah Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue ×14
- STSERVANTS TO ALL2× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -38%
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +39%
- KCKING'S COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -11%
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 training and therapy services for disabled children and adults in luzerne, schuylkill, and carbon counties in pennsylvania.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
Keystone service systems, inc. (kss) provides residential and related support services for families and people who experience intellectual disability, mental illness, or other behavioral challenges throughout central pennsylvania and the…
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Shelter services inc provides temporary shelter to the homeless from multiple counties and facilitates programs to prevent homelessness through various housing/rent/utility assistance services.
The center provides comprehensive health and dental services for residents of scranton pa and other communities in lackawanna and surrounding counties.
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Hazleton Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Berwick Elementary Parent Group. 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 22 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 113 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 LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Downtown Shenandoah Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAZLETON INTEGRATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS TO ALL ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITIES OF HAZLETON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds DUSTINS ADVENTURELAND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER HAZLETON INC ↗
- Who funds IMMANUEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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 Luzerne Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Ppl Foundation · Allone Charities · Paul and Lisa Deangelo Family Foundation · Allone Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Pasco J Schiavo Memorial Charitable Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation · Ballard Angels Inc · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable 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 First Federal 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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