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Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$282kHealth$172kHuman Services$78kPhilanthropy$45kYouth Development$39kFood & Nutrition$33kCrime & Legal$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY$225,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HARVEYS LAKE FIRE & AMBULANCE$6,000
LUZERNE CTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$5,700
GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
LUZERNE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS$5,000
CORI'S PLACE$4,800
THE LEHMAN SANCTUARY$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,700
THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS$3,500
CAMP ORCHARD HILL$3,500
BRIGHTER JOURNEYS$3,500
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA$2,500
YMCA$1,500
PATRIOT'S COVE$1,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BEYOND VIOLENCE: $3k → 14%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $500 → 13%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $800 → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $400 → 13%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $600 → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $11k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $5k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $5k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $3k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $3k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $3k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $600 → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $600 → 15%CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $3k → 15%CANDY'S PLACE: $2k → 15%GRANITEVILLE HOUSE OF RECOVERY: $900 → 15%STEP BY STEP: $5k → 15%STEP BY STEP: $3k → 15%YMCA: $2k → 15%VICTIM RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%VICTIM RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%VICTIM'S RESESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%VICTIM RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 15%YMCA: $3k → 15%YMCA: $3k → 15%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER: $600 → 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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$788k · 67 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
33

Total granted

$788k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+40%

Still filing today

46%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $276k · revenue +28%
  • GH
    GEISINGER HEALTH
    6× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +133%
  • BJ
    BRIGHTER JOURNEYS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NEPA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
2
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
3
Keystone Hospice

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…

Human Services
4
Central Pennsylvania Clinic- a Medical Home for Special Children & Adults

Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.

Health
5
Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health
6
Mercy Life Center Corporation

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…

Health
7
Pocono Vna-Hospice

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.

—
8
Center for Community Resources Inc

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…

Health
9
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

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,…

Human Services
10
Berks Counseling Center Inc

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…

Health
11
Pennsylvania Polio Survivors Network
Health
12
Human Resources Center Inc

Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Step By Step Inc; 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

38 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. 38 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER: $38,600 · OtherCATHOLIC YOUTH CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherWEINBURG FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherJANET WEIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $17,050 · OtherLUZERNE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $15,000 · Other+75 more: $267,450 · Other+75 moreMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $275,500 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYGEISINGER HEALTH: $30,000 · HealthSTEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $8,850 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,825 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,550 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthCORI'S PLACE: $29,500 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $6,500 · Human ServicesTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $4,500 · Human ServicesVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $4,400 · Human ServicesBEYOND VIOLENCE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,750 · Human Services+3 more: $3,200 · Human ServicesBRIGHTER JOURNEYS: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $11,500 · PhilanthropyMEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $9,925 · PhilanthropyLITTLE ERIC'S FOUNDATION: $3,400 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $17,500 · Crime & LegalSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,400 · Housing & ShelterKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $5,350 · Housing & Shelter
Other$378,100Education$275,500Health$68,725Human Services$61,350Philanthropy$56,325Crime & Legal$17,500Housing & Shelter$11,750

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 budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $275,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER JOURNEYS: $30,000 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetCORI'S PLACE: $29,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $11,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOTS COVE INC: $10,100 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $9,925 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $9,575 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $8,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,825 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP BY STEP INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ORCHARD HILL INC: $6,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $5,350 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $4,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $4,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBACK MOUNTAIN FOOD PANTRY: $4,200 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE ERIC'S FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBEYOND VIOLENCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $2,600 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $2,450 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFORK OVER LOVE INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION CENTRAL INC: $1,525 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPA LYME RESOURCE NETWORK: $1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANITEVILLE HOUSE OF RECOVERY: $900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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 Luzerne FoundationThe Tambur Family Fou…Maslow Family Foundat…Allone CharitiesJoseph B and Virginia…Nesbitt Family Charit…The Blackhorse Founda…Benco Family Foundati…William G McGowan Cha…Allone FoundationUnited Way of Wyoming…Moses Taylor Foundati…
The Luzerne FoundationPA40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 105 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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