· Private foundation
Margaret Briggs Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $569k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNT | $150,000 |
| ALL ONE CHARITIES | $35,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA | $30,000 |
| IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS INC | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| Lacawac Sanctuary | $30,000 |
| CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER | $27,500 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPY FUND | $25,000 |
| EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $25,000 |
| YOUTH ARTS COALITION | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASISI KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +30%
- TSTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +41%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- NONEIGHBORWORKS OF NEone grant, 2022 · $28k
- EOEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY AND TRAININGone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
To provide a variety of social services to individuals and families residing in northeastern pennsylvania, including, but not limited to, counseling, provision of goods, and provision of housing.
The organization's purpose is to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income families in scranton and surrounding lackawanna county, pa.
The organization promotes business interests and economic and workforce development in the greater scranton area of lackawanna county.
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Provide emergency medical services.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jamie Kotula Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 121 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 UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFETY NET ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLONE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
- Who funds THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD BASKET OF NORTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA ↗
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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · The Willary Foundation · Allone Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation · Eureka Foundation · Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation
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 Margaret Briggs 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.
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