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Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$201kHealth$165kHuman Services$74kEducation$54kCrime & Legal$52kAnimals$44kRecreation & Sports$8kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEINBURG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BA$20,000
FORK OVER LOVE$10,000
BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSN$10,000
NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES$10,000
MOA PRESCRIPTION FUND$10,000
RUTH'S PLACE$7,500
DINNERS FOR KIDS$6,000
AUTISM FOUNDATION ALLIED SERVICES$5,000
CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY$5,000
FAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION$5,000
LEHMAN SANCTUARY$5,000
NEPA YOUTH SHELTER$4,500
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
CHILDRENS SERVICE CENTER$3,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CODY BARRASSE FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%CODY BARRASSE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%CODY BARRASSE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $9k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $8k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $4k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $4k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $3k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $2k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $14k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $10k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $10k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $8k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $8k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $7k → 15%GREATER WILKES-BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $3k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $1k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$632k · 41 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
8

Total granted

$632k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+28%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GW
    GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +27%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +112%
  • CO
    CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • WR
    WILDLIFE RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -48%
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
Meals On Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc

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.

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2
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
3
Pennsylvania Veterinary Foundation

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.

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4
Lycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.

Animals
5
Lebanon Valley Volunteers in Medicine Clinic

Our mission is to serve the health and wellness needs of the uninsured who live in lebanon county, pa.

Health
6
Pet Search Inc

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.

Animals
7
Heal Animal Rescue

To rescue and rehabilitate homeless animals; to provide veterinarian care, food, and shelter to dogs and cats awaiting their forever homes.

Animals
8
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
9
Wolf Sanctuary of Pa Inc

Educate the general public about wolves and their habitat. provide food, shelter, and veterinary care for 56 wolves.

Animals
10
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
11
Valley Ambulance Authority

To provide emergency medical services to the participating communities, which includes ambulance and wheelchair van services.

Health
12
Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

To care for injured and orphaned wild animals, rehabilitate them and release them into the appropriate habitat.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS: $49,500 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSWEINBURG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BA: $45,000 · OtherWEINBURG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BABACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $41,175 · OtherBACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONWEINBERG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BA: $27,500 · OtherWEINBERG NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOOD BAFAMILY SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherMOA PRESCRIPTION FUND: $20,000 · OtherLEHMAN SANCTUARY: $16,500 · OtherRUTH'S PLACE: $14,500 · Other+27 more: $143,545 · Other+27 moreGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $66,450 · Human ServicesGREATER WILKES BARRE A…CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $43,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEYST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUN…CODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCODY JUDE BARRASSE MEM…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $38,500 · HealthCHILDRENS S…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $21,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS …WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · HealthWYOMING VAL…DINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $33,300 · Recreation & SportsNEPA RACING INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsFORK OVER LOVE INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $2,500 · Food & NutritionNO NONSENSE NEUTERING INC: $9,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE RESCUE: $3,000 · AnimalsWHISKERS WORLD INC: $1,000 · AnimalsLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $9,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$377,720Human Services$132,950Health$66,000Recreation & Sports$35,300Food & Nutrition$27,500Animals$13,500Crime & Legal$9,000

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 budgetGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $66,450 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $49,500 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $43,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetBACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $41,175 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $38,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $33,300 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetFORK OVER LOVE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $21,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNO NONSENSE NEUTERING INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF DALLAS INCORPOR: $8,100 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetCODY JUDE BARRASSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANTHRACITE SCENIC TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $6,175 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBRIGHTER JOURNEYS: $5,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE RESCUE: $3,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEPA RACING INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHISKERS WORLD INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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 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 JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Tambur Family Fou…William G McGowan Cha…Benco Family Foundati…The Luzerne FoundationJoseph and Erma Pagli…Allone CharitiesNesbitt Family Charit…Maslow Family Foundat…The Blackhorse Founda…Allone FoundationSordoni Family Founda…Moses Taylor Foundati…
The Tambur Family FoundationPA36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 B and Virginia H Banks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 51 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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