How much did MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

equipmentbureaudirectorsfood needycoatsholidaymentoring

2019

directorscoatsfood needyhomelessmentoringoutreachchildren's

2020

jefferson townshipcovidfood needyhomelessresponsecoatslibrary

2021

outreachneighborhoodadvocacyparish

2022

resourceparish

2023

kitchenparish

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 42 grants

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

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNT$150,000
ALL ONE CHARITIES$35,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA$30,000
Lacawac Sanctuary$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA$30,000
IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS INC$30,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$30,000
CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER$27,500
ST FRANCIS OF ASISI KITCHEN$25,000
Broadway Theatre League of Ne Pa$25,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$25,000
EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
YOUTH ARTS COALITION$25,000
NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
CHILDREN HUNGER OUTREACH$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 70 repeat orgs$659k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$532k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+53%

Still filing today

36%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

TS
TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +56%
WR
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +74%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON
4× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +17%

Funded once

UN
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
one grant, 2021 · $50k
NO
NEIGHBORWORKS OF NE
one grant, 2022 · $28k
WF
WEINBERG FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Scranton Chamber of Commerce

The organization promotes business interests and economic and workforce development in the greater scranton area of lackawanna county.

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United Way of Lackawanna

To improve the quality of life of the people of lackawanna and wayne counties and surrounding communities by serving as a catalyst for community problem solving and by conducting an efficient, encompassing volunteer fundraising effort to…

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Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education

The Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou

Sarccs mission is to prevent sexual violence and promote healing for those impacted.

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Pocono Mountains United Way

Engages and mobilizes resources to improve lives through accelerated community change

Philanthropy

South Central Emergency Medical

Provide emergency medical services.

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Pennsylvania Women Work

Pa women work empowers women to prepare for and find lasting employment that pays a family-sustaining wage. the mission of the organization is to transform womens lives through empowerment, employment and economic independence.

Human Services

Center for Community Action

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 these…

Housing & Shelter

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.

Education

Support Center for Child Advocates

To advocate for victims of child abuse and neglect with the goal of securing safety, justice, well-being and a permanent, nurturing environment for every child.

Crime & Legal

Family Health Council of Central Pa Inc

The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. is to build and support community based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.

Health

Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Scranton. 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 49 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/47

the rest of the field

189/2,425

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.

05the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/45

Grantees still filing

36/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,300,487Human Services$324,000Health$241,000Education$194,500Arts & Culture$112,500Philanthropy$85,000Community Improvement$67,477

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.

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.

Scranton Area Foundation IncPA58.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Willary Foundation · Allone Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Allone Charities · Eureka Foundation · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · Fidelity D & D Charitable Foundation · The Ross Family 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DUNMORE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 884316059 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DUNMORE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Margaret Briggs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Margaret Briggs Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret Briggs Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MARGARET BRIGGS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret Briggs Foundation?

More from the funding graph