Pennsylvania · 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.
- $119k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $119k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $81k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $93k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $76k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $100k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $52k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $50k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $51k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Wilkes Barre Association for the Blind D/B/A Northeast Sight Services | $66,450 | 9 | 2% |
| Meals on Wheels | $49,500 | 9 | 9% |
| Casa of Wyoming Valley | $43,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Back Mountain Memorial Library Association | $41,175 | 9 | 2% |
| Childrens Svc Ctr of Wyom Valley Inc | $38,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Dinners for Kids Inc | $33,300 | 7 | 3% |
| Fork Over Love Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $21,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lehman Sanctuary | $16,500 | 5 | n/a |
| No Nonsense Neutering Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation with peer funders
About Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation
- How much does Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation give?
- Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $119,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (30%), Health (25%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Wilkes Barre Association for the Blind D/B/A Northeast Sight Services ($66k), Meals on Wheels ($50k), Casa of Wyoming Valley ($43k).
- Does Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tambur Family Foundation, William G McGowan Charitable Fund, Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation based?
- Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation is based in PA.
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