Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Peoples Security Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $102k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Peoples Security Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $102k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $203k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $115k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $64k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $43k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $43k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $65k | 76% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $44k | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Zoological Society | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lackawanna College | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wrc Inc | $27,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Scranton Counseling Center | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Handicapped Children's Association of Southern New York Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Childrens Svc Ctr of Wyom Valley Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Outreach - Center for Community Resources | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| B-K Health Center Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Housing Development Corporation Midatlantic | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peoples Security Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Allone Charities · Allone Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Peoples Security Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Peoples Security Charitable Foundation
- How much does Peoples Security Charitable Foundation give?
- Peoples Security Charitable Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $102,466 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Peoples Security Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (18%), Animals (14%).
- Who are Peoples Security Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh Valley Zoological Society ($110k), Lackawanna College ($60k), Pocono Services for Families and Children Incorporated ($40k).
- Does Peoples Security Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Peoples Security Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Peoples Security Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Ppl Foundation, Allone Charities.
- Where is Peoples Security Charitable Foundation based?
- Peoples Security Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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