· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania
The mission of the JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA is to rescue the imperiled, to care for the vulnerable, to support israel, and to revitalize and perpetuate the jewish communities of pike, wayne, monroe, and lackawanna counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $792,902 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,041,038 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,136 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $661k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $220,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $143,973 |
| SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $101,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $98,444 |
| BETH SHALOM CONGREGATION | $97,500 |
| YESHIVA BETH MOSHE | $40,500 |
| JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS | $37,000 |
| TEMPLE HESED RELIGIOUS SCHOOL | $27,085 |
| BAIS YAAKOV OF SCRANTON | $12,000 |
| JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF THE POCONOS | $5,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA9× · 2017–2025 · $892k · revenue +44%
- SHSCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $757k · revenue +56%
- JRJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS9× · 2017–2025 · $331k · revenue +330% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- JKJeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +185% · 77% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FELLOWSHIP OF HEMLOCK FARMS INCone grant, 2024 · $29k
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +58%
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.
The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.
The Jewish Community Council of Erie is a community-based organization serving individuals and families in the Erie area with a wide range of social and educational services, as well as capacity-building support to other community-based…
The mission of the jewish federation of northeastern pennsylvania is to rescue the imperiled, to care for the vulnerable, to support israel, and to revitalize and perpetuate the jewish communities of pike, wayne, monroe, and lackawanna…
Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…
Operation of a synagogue and religious outreach center. The organization also provides kosher catering services for the local Jewish population.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Provides religious and cultural programs to students, faculty and alumniof three local colleges as well as the local community.
Our mission is to foster an appreciation of Jewish identity, values and culture, to promote health, education and welfare of our members, to strengthen Jewish family life, to build a sense of community and ensure Jewish continuity for our…
To further the jewish religion and promote jewish knowledge, education and community primarily through the publication and distribution of a weekly newspaper which contains jewish religious information, advice and guidance, discussion and…
Adult religious educational program
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Scranton 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.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF THE ABINGTONS INC ↗
- Who funds Jeff Kornblau Partners For Patient Advocacy ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON RITUALARIUM ASSOCIATION MIKVAH YISROEL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
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 Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Sare Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jewish Federation of Northeastern Pennsylvania 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.