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James & Florence Depolo Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $6,350 |
| WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $2,800 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL | $2,322 |
| WARRIORS ASCENT | $2,000 |
| RED WHITE AND BLUE | $2,000 |
| KING'S COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CHURCH | $1,900 |
| LAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION | $1,750 |
| LAKE CAREY WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NESCOPECK | $1,000 |
| LAKE CAREY SPORTSMENS ASSOCIATION | $850 |
| LAKE CAREY CHAPEL | $300 |
| TUNKHANNOCK BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WOMAN | $250 |
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 (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +9% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- WVWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
- NPNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +4%
- KCKING'S COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- RGRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%
- DUDucks Unlimited Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +105%
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY REDEEMERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
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, & community service.
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
Charles cole memorial hospital's (upmc cole) mission is to serve the surrounding rural communities by providing quality patient care and improving the quality of life for all patients.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide and the most unlike its peers is Medical Oncology Associates Prescription Assistance Fund. 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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 77 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 WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Warriors Ascent ↗
- Who funds FORK OVER LOVE 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: The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Hackett Philanthropies 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 James & Florence Depolo 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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