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Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$147k29%
FY202423$136k26%
FY202317$120k35%
FY202219$120k21%
FY202120$120k35%
FY202017$99k35%
FY201916$90k63%
FY201814$87k29%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$266kHealth$222kFood & Nutrition$136kHuman Services$81kAnimals$73kRecreation & Sports$45kCrime & Legal$43kArts & Culture$41kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($433k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWyoming Valley Children's Association: $100,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMisericordia University: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGeisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCori's Place: $40,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCasa of Wyoming Valley: $35,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWilkes University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOsterhout Free Library: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDinners for Kids Inc: $24,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUnited Way of Wyoming Valley: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFork Over Love Inc: $21,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $19,880 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Northeast: $12,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDress for Success Luzerne County: $11,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBack Mountain Memorial Library Association: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNorth Branch Land Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Scranton Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Food Dignity Project: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetKeystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $4,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Bread Basket of Northeastern Pa: $4,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBack Mountain Food Pantry: $4,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDomestic Violence Service Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of Luzerne County: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGreater Wyoming Valley Area YMCA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDauphin County Voa Living Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 Blackhorse FoundationPA34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackhorse Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Luzerne Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · Joseph and Erma Paglianite Charitable Foundation · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Sordoni Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · Allone Charities

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.

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About Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation give?
Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $146,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Health (22%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wyoming Valley Children's Association ($100k), Misericordia University ($80k), Geisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med ($45k).
Does Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackhorse Foundation, William G McGowan Charitable Fund, The Luzerne Foundation.
Where is Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation based?
Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

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 66 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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