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Overlook Estate Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$885k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2022
13%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,928
Largest grant, FY2024
$750,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 26
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$836k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 13% of the organizations Overlook Estate Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementRecreation & 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
FY2024still arriving20$885k30%
FY202223$293k13%
FY202126$217k50%
FY202024$221k29%
FY201921$214k33%
FY201816$131k19%
FY201716$196kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$919kArts & Culture$336kEnvironment$296kHuman Services$231kFood & Nutrition$60kInternational$58kAnimals$42kRecreation & Sports$41kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pennsylvania State University$750,0001n/a
Countryside Conservancy$152,600610%
Wyoming County Cultural Center$131,44573%
Keystone College$102,35050%
Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc$97,90876%
Kiss Theatre Co$55,15466%
Waverly Community House Inc$50,54732%
Highlights Foundation Inc$36,50061%
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA$35,30040%
The Food Dignity Project$29,00038%
Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($480k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Overlook Estate Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCountryside Conservancy: $152,600 over 6y, 10% of budgetWyoming County Cultural Center: $131,445 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetKeystone College: $102,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc: $97,908 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetKiss Theatre Co: $55,154 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetWaverly Community House Inc: $50,547 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHighlights Foundation Inc: $36,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $35,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Dignity Project: $29,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetAbington Area Joint Recreation Board: $27,300 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $27,163 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEverhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art: $23,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $21,100 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPhilharmonic Society of Nepa: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWrc Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLackawanna College: $11,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Scranton Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOutreach - Center for Community Resources: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSerendipity Therapeutic Riding Center LLC: $7,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $6,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gathering Place: $4,700 over 2y, 4.1% 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 22.

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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.

Scranton Area Foundation IncPA30.3× affinity12 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 · The Willary Foundation · The Ross Family Foundation · Eureka Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · Margaret Briggs 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.

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How do I get to Overlook Estate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Overlook Estate 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.

About Overlook Estate Foundation

How much does Overlook Estate Foundation give?
Overlook Estate Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $885,328 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Overlook Estate Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Arts & Culture (16%), Environment (14%).
Who are Overlook Estate Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pennsylvania State University ($750k), Countryside Conservancy ($153k), Wyoming County Cultural Center ($131k).
Does Overlook Estate Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Overlook Estate Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Overlook Estate Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Hawk Family Foundation, The Willary Foundation.
Where is Overlook Estate Foundation based?
Overlook Estate 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 55 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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