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Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$266kHealth$222kFood & Nutrition$136kHuman Services$81kAnimals$73kRecreation & Sports$45kCrime & Legal$43kArts & Culture$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
WYOMING VALLEY CHILDRENS ASSOC$15,000
WYOMING SEMINARY PREP SCHOOL$10,000
PENN STATE WILKES BARRE$10,000
CORI'S PLACE$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
DINNER FOR KIDS$9,500
LANDS HILLSIDE FARMS$5,500
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER$5,000
GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$5,000
UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY$5,000
FM KIRBY CENTER$5,000
CEO WEINBERG FOOD BANK$4,500
BACK MOUNTAIN FOOD PANTRY$4,500
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH$4,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $5k → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 13%CORI'S PLACE: $11k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $10k → 15%CORI'S PLACE: $10k → 15%CORIS PLACE: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$851k · 31 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
28

Total granted

$851k
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

48%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • WV
    WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +28%
  • GC
    GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOUNTAINTOP HOSE CO #1
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • FD
    FOOD DIGNITY
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • BM
    BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -9%

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.

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.

2
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

3
Mckeesport Meals on Wheels Inc

McKeesport Area Meals on Wheels provides meals to numerous McKeesport Area elderly anddisabled individuals throughtout the calender year.

Food & Nutrition
4
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

5
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
6
West Chester Food Cupboard

The west chester food cupboard is one of the largest hunger relief agencies in chester county. we are the primary source of food assistance for low- income residents living in and around the west chester area school district. west chester…

Food & Nutrition
7
Western Pocono Community Library

Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community

8
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
9
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

10
Woodside Meals On Wheels

Woodside Meals on Wheels is an all-volunteer organization. We package and deliver meals to individuals in Lower Bucks County who are home-bound and unable to prepare meals for themselves. By providing this service, the Meals on Wheels team…

11
The Lutheran Service Society of W Pa

With christ's guidance, lutheran service society offers programs that empower our neighbors to lead independent, dignified, and secure lives.

Human Services
12
Wyoming County Historical Society

To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Cori's Place. 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 32 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%21%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr25%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%12%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr25%27%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
8%
111/1,351

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.

04the grantee network

29 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 66 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WYOMING SEMINARY PREP SCHOOL — $85,000 · OtherWYOMING SEMINARY PREP SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLUE CHIP FARM ANIMAL RESCUE — $40,425 · OtherBLUE CHIP FARM ANIMAL RESCUEWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 · OtherWOMENS RESOURCE CENTEROSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY — $30,000 · OtherOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARYPENN STATE WILKES BARRE — $30,000 · OtherPENN STATE WILKES BARRE+45 more — $288,200 · Other+45 moreMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIV…GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED — $45,000 · EducationGEISINGER COMMONW…WILKES UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · HealthWYOMING VAL…CORI'S PLACE — $40,500 · Human ServicesCORI'S PL…CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY — $35,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF W…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MC…+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesFORK OVER LOVE INC — $21,500 · Food & NutritionThe Lands at Hillside Farms — $19,880 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BREAD BASKET OF NORTHEASTERN PA — $4,500 · Food & NutritionBACK MOUNTAIN FOOD PANTRY — $4,500 · Food & NutritionDINNERS FOR KIDS INC — $24,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY — $22,500 · Philanthropy
Other$558,625Education$155,000Health$100,000Human Services$83,000Food & Nutrition$55,380Recreation & Sports$24,500Philanthropy$22,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetWyoming Historical & Geological Society — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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 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 budgetBACK MOUNTAIN FOOD PANTRY — $4,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF LUZERNE COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY VOA LIVING CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED
  • Who funds CORI'S PLACE
  • Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY
  • Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY
  • Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY
  • Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC
  • Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTHEAST
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS LUZERNE COUNTY
  • Who funds BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society
  • Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC
  • Who funds WYOMING VALLEY ART LEAGUE

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.

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

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 Nesbitt Family Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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