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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.

$53k
Granted FY2020
25
Grants FY2020
25
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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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 12 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: 12 organizations, $53k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’17
13
’18
13
’19
12
’20
12
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 26
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
ReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202025$53k0%
FY201926$56k4%
FY201826$57k4%
FY201725$56kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.1MReligion$138kHuman Services$41kHealth$31kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kEnvironment$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania State University$25,0005n/a
St Josephs Center$9,00050%
Temple Israel$8,0005n/a
Lackawanna River Conservation Association Inc$6,00051%
St Francis of Assisi Kitchen$5,00050%
Lackawanna Pro Bono Inc$5,00051%
United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties$5,00050%
Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab$5,00050%
United Cerebral Palsy of Nepa$5,00050%
Wrc Inc$5,00050%
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All grantees of Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania State University$25,0005n/a
St Josephs Center$9,00050%
Temple Israel$8,0005n/a
Lackawanna River Conservation Association Inc$6,00051%
St Francis of Assisi Kitchen$5,00050%
Lackawanna Pro Bono Inc$5,00051%
United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties$5,00050%
Jewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab$5,00050%
United Cerebral Palsy of Nepa$5,00050%
Wrc Inc$5,00050%
Friendship House$5,00050%
Elan Gardens Inc Elan Senior Living a Jewish Senior Life$3,00030%
Jewish Heritage Connection$2,00040%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Josephs Center: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLackawanna River Conservation Association Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSt Francis of Assisi Kitchen: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLackawanna Pro Bono Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home of Eastern Pennsylvania Elan Skilled Nursing and Rehab: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of Nepa: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWrc Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship House: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElan Gardens Inc Elan Senior Living a Jewish Senior Life: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Heritage Connection: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Rosenberg Charitable FoundationPA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation

How much does Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation give?
Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $52,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (80%), Religion (10%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Pennsylvania State University ($25k), St Josephs Center ($9k), Temple Israel ($8k).
Does Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rosenberg Charitable Foundation, Walter L Schautz Foundation, The Hawk Family Foundation.
Where is Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation based?
Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation is based in PA.

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 29 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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