· Private foundation
Joseph B and Virginia H Banks 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEINBURG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BA | $20,000 |
| BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSN | $10,000 |
| MOA PRESCRIPTION FUND | $10,000 |
| FORK OVER LOVE | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES | $10,000 |
| RUTH'S PLACE | $7,500 |
| DINNERS FOR KIDS | $6,000 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LEHMAN SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| AUTISM FOUNDATION ALLIED SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NEPA YOUTH SHELTER | $4,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CHILDRENS SERVICE CENTER | $3,000 |
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, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GWGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +27%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +112%
- COCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +28%
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $4k
- SVST VINCENTS DEPAUL KITCHENone grant, 2017 · $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.
Provides nourishing, well-balanced meals to homebound, elderly, and/or disabled persons throughout lackawanna county to improve the health and quality of life of the local community.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
Our mission is to serve the health and wellness needs of the uninsured who live in lebanon county, pa.
Pet search, inc. is an all volunteer animal rescue and placement service, dedicating itself to the rescue, care, and placement of homeless and unwanted domestic animals in southwestern pennsylvania.
To rescue and rehabilitate homeless animals; to provide veterinarian care, food, and shelter to dogs and cats awaiting their forever homes.
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
Educate the general public about wolves and their habitat. provide food, shelter, and veterinary care for 56 wolves.
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…
To provide emergency medical services to the participating communities, which includes ambulance and wheelchair van services.
To care for injured and orphaned wild animals, rehabilitate them and release them into the appropriate habitat.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Dallas Incorpor. 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 19 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.
27 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. 27 of the 51 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 GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds NO NONSENSE NEUTERING INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF DALLAS INCORPOR ↗
- Who funds CODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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 Tambur Family Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation · Allone Charities · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · 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 B and Virginia H Banks 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.