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Margaret Briggs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$786k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.2MPhilanthropy$855kYouth Development$570kHealth$465kEducation$424kFood & Nutrition$373kHousing & Shelter$269kArts & Culture$263kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $569k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNT$150,000
ALL ONE CHARITIES$35,000
Lacawac Sanctuary$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA$30,000
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES$30,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA$30,000
IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS INC$30,000
CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER$27,500
SCRANTON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPY FUND$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF NEPA$25,000
NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF$25,000
Broadway Theatre League of Ne Pa$25,000
YOUTH ARTS COALITION$25,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MON-N-PA: $20k → 8%ALL ONE CHARITIES: $35k → 15%ALLONE CHARITIES: $25k → 15%ALLONE CHARITIES: $10k → 15%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $20k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $13k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $10k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $36k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $28k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $28k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $28k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $12k → 13%NORTHEASTERN CHILDCARE SERVICES: $11k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $25k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $10k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $30k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $28k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $23k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $23k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $20k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $16k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $13k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $3k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%Agency for Community EmPOWERment: $2k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%Agency for Community EmPOWERment: $2k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%Agency for Community EmPOWERment: $2k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 13%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 68 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
46

Total granted

$4.6M
$530k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+22%

Still filing today

54%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +30%
  • TS
    TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $123k · revenue +41%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • UN
    UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NO
    NEIGHBORWORKS OF NE
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Scranton-Lackawanna Resources Development Corporation

To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county

Human Services
2
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
3
Schuylkill Community Action

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…

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4
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Lackawanna Neighbors Inc

The organization's purpose is to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income families in scranton and surrounding lackawanna county, pa.

Housing & Shelter
6
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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7
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 the…

Housing & Shelter
8
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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10
Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health
11
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
12
Vna Home Health Services

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 121 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE: $506,000 · OtherUNIITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNEUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $375,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIESUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA: $259,300 · OtherUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA: $250,092 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPAVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $150,000 · Other+83 more: $2,347,872 · Other+83 moreTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $123,000 · Human ServicesTELESPOND SE…NORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES: $118,500 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTERN…ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $95,750 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS C…ALLONE CHARITIES: $70,000 · Human ServicesALLONE CHARI…THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $56,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHERIN…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $42,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $35,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SU…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $25,000 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $101,000 · HealthSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER: $95,000 · HealthTHE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE: $15,000 · HealthTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $15,000 · HealthKATIES PLACE CLUBHOUSE: $10,000 · HealthGEISINGER HEALTH: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $6,250 · HealthUniversity of Scranton: $106,000 · EducationJOHNSON COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationMarywood University: $13,500 · EducationEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $57,500 · Arts & CultureBROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF SCRANTON INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH ARTS COALITION: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $24,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC: $63,200 · Housing & ShelterKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTCS-I MIDTOWN APARTMENTS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropyJAMIE KOTULA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,888,264Human Services$590,250Health$252,250Education$194,500Arts & Culture$161,500Housing & Shelter$148,200Philanthropy$90,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $375,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $123,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN CHILD CARE SERVICES: $118,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC: $108,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $106,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $101,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSCRANTON PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $101,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER: $95,750 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER: $95,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSAFETY NET: $80,500 over 8y, 32% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSON COLLEGE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLONE CHARITIES: $70,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC: $63,200 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $57,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $56,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $42,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BREAD BASKET OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $40,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF SCRANTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUPPER VALLEY YMCA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $24,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $24,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $23,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSCRANTON TOMORROW: $23,477 over 1y, 27% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetDUNMORE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNORTH POCONO BOOSTER ASSOCIATION: $19,750 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLACKAWANNA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $19,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetTHE ADVOCACY ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMarywood University: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTCS-I MIDTOWN APARTMENTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKATIES PLACE CLUBHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Scranton Area Foundation IncPA69.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Margaret Briggs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Briggs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Margaret Briggs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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