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Overlook Estate Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$885k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$5,928
Median grant
2
States reached
$836k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENN STATE$750,000
WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE$17,700
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NEPA$15,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER INC$15,000
COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY$12,600
THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN PENN$10,000
MAISHA HOLISTIC AFRICA FOUNDATION$8,400
OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES$7,500
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY$6,300
THE GATHERING PLACE$5,928
LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION$5,000
WYOMING COUNTRY CULTURAL CENTER INC$5,000
THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS$4,600
HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$4,000
EVERHART MUSEUM$4,000
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $8k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $6k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 35 repeat orgs$890k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+2825%

Still filing today

51%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $791k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +380%
  • WC
    WYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +20%
  • LS
    LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • HA
    HOUSTIC AFRICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • SH
    SPRING HILLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×29
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
Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture
2
Central Pennsylvania Conservancy Inc

The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…

Environment
3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
5
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
6
Heritage Conservancy Inc

We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.

Arts & Culture
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
The Clearwater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania Inc

To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.

Environment
9
Willistown Conservation Trust Inc

The mission of the Willistown Conservation Trust is to preserve and manage the open land, rural character, scenic, recreational, historic, agricultural and natural resources of the Willistown area and nearby communities, and to share these…

Environment
10
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art

The Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art preserves and presents elements of art and nature that highlight the extraordinary beauty of the Brandywine region in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The Brandywine Conservancy protects and conserves…

Arts & Culture
11
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc

To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.

Environment
12
Susquehanna University

Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waverly Community House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Serendipity Therapeutic Riding Center Llc. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $102,350 · OtherKEYSTONE COLLEGEWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $51,000 · Other+36 more: $554,025 · Other+36 moreWYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER: $131,445 · Arts & CultureWYOMING COUNTY…KISS THEATRE CO: $55,154 · Arts & CultureKISS THEATRE C…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $25,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLA…EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $23,500 · Arts & CultureEVERHART MUSEU…PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC S…SPRING HILLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $152,600 · EnvironmentCOUNTRYSIDE C…LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $97,908 · EnvironmentLACAWAC SANCT…WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $50,547 · Community ImprovementTHE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT: $29,000 · Food & NutritionThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $21,100 · Food & NutritionLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $35,300 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $6,800 · AnimalsUniversity of Scranton: $27,163 · EducationLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $11,400 · Education
Other$1,457,375Arts & Culture$268,599Environment$250,508Community Improvement$50,547Food & Nutrition$50,100Animals$42,100Education$38,563

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 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
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 COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KISS THEATRE CO ↗
  • Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ABINGTON AREA JOINT RECREATION BOARD ↗
  • Who funds University of Scranton ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
  • Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
  • Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA ↗
  • Who funds WRC INC ↗
  • Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRING HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds SERENDIPITY THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER LLC ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Overlook Estate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Overlook Estate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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