· Private foundation
Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Scranton Area Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $53k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k24 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $25,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $1,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CENTER | $1,000 |
| LACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOC | $1,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| THE PA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down. Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SJST JOSEPHS CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +59%
- LRLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +54%
- JHJEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +9%
Funded once
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 help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
The jewish home of greater harrisburg provides a continuum of primarily senior living services to the central pennsylvania community. our mission, based on jewish values, is to enhance the quality of life of those we serve and their…
Jewish family service of the lehigh valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. our vision…
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
Vna-hhmo, inc. provides a continuum of care with comfort and compassion for all residents of lackawanna county, pa and surrounding areas.
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
The mission of saint joseph villa is rooted in the mission of the sisters of st. joseph who founded and sponsor the villa. the sisters' mission of uniting people with god and with one another is the primary focus of the staff at the villa.…
To provide medical related services to homebound patients in marion county, indiana and surrounding counties through a staff of skilled nurses, home health aides, therapists and contracted professionals.
Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Jewish home's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. menorah park is committed to maintaining jewish values and traditions.
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 Jewish Heritage Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC ↗
- Who funds ELAN GARDENS INC ELAN SENIOR LIVING A JEWISH SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA 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: Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Eureka Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Oppenheim Foundation · Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation · The Ross Family Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank 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 Irving and Edythe Grossman 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.