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James & Florence Depolo Foundation at a glance

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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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$59kCrime & Legal$37kEnvironment$32kEducation$30kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$25kReligion$24kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
3
States reached
$285k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RED WHITE AND BLUE$2,000
WARRIORS ASCENT$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
FRIENDS OF THE NESCOPECK$1,000
WYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY$1,000
LAKE CAREY SPORTSMENS ASSOCIATION$850
LAKE CAREY CHAPEL$300
DIETRICH THEATER$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $250 → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $200 → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $250 → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $200 → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $100 → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $100 → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $100 → 9%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $100 → 13%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $7k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $7k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $6k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $4k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $3k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $100 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$229k · 37 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
34

Total granted

$229k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+10%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WV
    WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
  • NP
    NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +4%
  • KC
    KING'S COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • RG
    RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +105%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE HOLY REDEEMER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lehigh Valley Hospital

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.

Health
2
Chambersburg Hospital

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.

Health
3
Reading Hospital

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…

Health
4
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

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.

Health
5
Waynesboro Hospital

Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
6
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

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.

Health
7
Upmc Carlisle

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.

Health
8
Vna Home Health Services

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…

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9
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

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…

Health
10
Gettysburg Hospital

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.

Health
11
Nyu Langone Hospitals

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…

Health
12
Charles Cole Memorial Hospital

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22,622 · OtherNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF…NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST OF PA: $20,550 · OtherNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST OF PACORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $12,005 · OtherCORPUS CHRISTI PARISHRUTH MATTHEWS WOMEN WITH CHILDREN PROGRAM: $9,145 · OtherRUTH MATTHEWS WOMEN WITH CHILDREN PROGRAMWYOMING VALLEY UNITED WAY: $5,140 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY REDEEMER: $5,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,685 · OtherADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON INC: $5,000 · Other+45 more: $44,660 · Other+45 moreCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $36,525 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING …FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,100 · Human Services+4 more: $2,100 · Human ServicesWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $37,650 · HealthWYOMING VALLEY C…Warriors Ascent: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthKING'S COLLEGE: $13,500 · EducationKING'S COLL…MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,325 · EducationMISERICORDI…WILKES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationWILKES UNIV…+3 more: $400 · EducationMEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $10,100 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $7,300 · Philanthropy+1 more: $250 · PhilanthropyRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $10,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $6,656 · Environment+1 more: $350 · EnvironmentCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $8,078 · International+1 more: $100 · International
Other$128,807Human Services$40,725Health$40,150Education$29,225Philanthropy$17,650Environment$17,006International$8,178

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $37,650 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $36,525 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22,622 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $10,100 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $8,078 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $7,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $6,656 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION: $4,245 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWarriors Ascent: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFORK OVER LOVE INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $350 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSeven Stars Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IN FOCUS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARES FOR KIDS: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TUNKHANNOCK COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRITON HOSE COMPANY OF TUNKHANNOCK NO 1: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHISKERS WORLD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTS FOR HEALING INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUNKHANNOCK ROTARY CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYALUSING PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ADOPT-A-SOLDIER PLATOON INC ↗
  • Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CAREY DAM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Warriors Ascent ↗
  • Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE ↗

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.

The Blackhorse Founda…Allone CharitiesThe Luzerne FoundationPpl FoundationJoseph B and Virginia…Kenneth and Caroline …Sordoni Family Founda…The Tambur Family Fou…Moses Taylor Foundati…Scranton Area Foundat…William G McGowan Cha…Hackett Philanthropie…
The Blackhorse FoundationPA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James & Florence Depolo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Florence Depolo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to James & Florence Depolo Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James & Florence Depolo Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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