· Private foundation
Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of JOSEPH AND ERMA PAGLIANITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HARVEYS LAKE FIRE & AMBULANCE | $6,000 |
| LUZERNE CTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,700 |
| LUZERNE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CORI'S PLACE | $4,800 |
| THE LEHMAN SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,700 |
| BRIGHTER JOURNEYS | $3,500 |
| THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS | $3,500 |
| CAMP ORCHARD HILL | $3,500 |
| CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA | $2,500 |
| PATRIOT'S COVE | $1,500 |
| YMCA | $1,500 |
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, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
67 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2025 · $276k · revenue +28%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +133%
- BJBRIGHTER JOURNEYS9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS OF NEPAone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step By Step Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 23. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 105 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 MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds CORI'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS COVE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEP BY STEP INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ORCHARD HILL INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA ↗
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 Luzerne Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Allone Foundation · United Way of Wyoming Valley · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc
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 Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable 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.