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Peoples Security Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$173kHealth$136kAnimals$110kEducation$95kHousing & Shelter$58kYouth Development$44kCommunity Improvement$44kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$115k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE$60,000
INNOVATION ARTS ACADEMY$5,000
BETHEL AME CHURCH$5,000
HOWARD GARDNER SCHOOL$5,000
ACLAMO$5,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$3,966
PROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER$3,500
CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE$2,500
ENDLESS MOUNTAINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,500
GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$2,500
WILKES UNIVERSITY$2,500
EMPOWER SOMERSET INC$1,500
SIGHTS FOR HOPE$1,000
B-K HEALTH CENTER DBA NEPA COMMUNITY HEALTH$1,000
ELIJAH'S PROMISE$1,000
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, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%PROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER: $4k → 13%ACLAMO: $10k → 7%PROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER: $3k → 13%HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ASSOC OF SOUTHERN NY: $5k → 20%WOMEN AWARE: $3k → 8%ACLAMO: $5k → 7%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ASSOC OF SOUTHERN NY: $5k → 20%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS: $5k → 12%OUTREACH-CNTR FO COMM RESOURCES: $10k → 13%HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOC OF SO NY: $5k → 20%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ASSOC OF SOUTHERN NY: $5k → 20%VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 15%HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ASSOC OF SOUTHERN NY: $5k → 20%POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $10k → 12%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 13%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $3k → 11%OUTREACH-CNTR FO COMM RESOURCES: $5k → 13%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $2k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $1k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $1k → 11%OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $5k → 13%SHANTHI PROJECT: $1k → 11%OUTREACH-CNTR FO COMM RESOURCES: $3k → 13%THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $3k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $3k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $2k → 13%YMCA OF GREATER SCRANTON: $2k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $8k → 13%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$420k · 23 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
56

Total granted

$420k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+27%

Still filing today

96%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +59%
  • PS
    POCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +16%
  • WI
    WRC INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE POOR
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -57%
  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k

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
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
2
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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3
Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

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4
Human Services Center

Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.

Human Services
5
Human Resources Center Inc

Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.

Human Services
6
The Learning Community of Pennsylvania

To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.

Human Services
7
Center for Community Action

The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…

Housing & Shelter
8
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
9
Lehigh Valley Health Network

We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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10
Family Health Council of Central Pa Inc

The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.

Health
11
Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…

Community Improvement
12
Community Counseling Center of Mercer County

To help individuals and families lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Providence Pregnancy Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyK-12 Charter and Independen…Community Centers & Family …Grantmaking and Donor Found…Professional Association Ne…Community Support ServicesRegional Economic Developme…Low-Income Senior HousingResidential Support ServicesLow-Income Housing Providers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr15%39%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr20%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
10%
645/6,668

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

57 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 89 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WRC INC — $27,500 · OtherWRC INCB-K HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 · OtherB-K HEALTH CENTER INCNATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON — $15,000 · Other+53 more — $247,866 · Other+53 morePOCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Human ServicesPOCONO SERVICES FOR F…HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesHANDICAPPED CHILDREN'…OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $22,500 · Human ServicesOUTREACH - CENTER FOR…ACLAMO — $15,000 · Human ServicesACLAMORONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton — $6,500 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER — $6,000 · Human ServicesUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC — $5,000 · Human Services+7 more — $16,000 · Human Services+7 moreLEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $110,000 · AnimalsLEHIGH VALLEY ZO…LACKAWANNA COLLEGE — $60,000 · EducationLACKAWANNA C…MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA…GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED — $10,000 · EducationGEISINGER CO…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER — $25,000 · HealthSCRANTON …CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC — $25,000 · HealthCHILDRENS…SERVING SENIORS INC — $12,000 · HealthSERVING S…RURAL HEALTH CORPORATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $2,500 · Health+1 more — $1,750 · HealthHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $11,000 · Housing & ShelterMORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Easton Development Partnership — $2,500 · Community ImprovementGREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$310,366Human Services$148,500Animals$110,000Education$82,500Health$66,250Housing & Shelter$36,000Community Improvement$13,500

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 budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $110,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOCONO SERVICES FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWRC INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetB-K HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACLAMO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVING SENIORS INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY HOUSE OF LEHIGH VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEMPOWER SOMERSET INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOCONO ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern Tier Industry and Education Consortium In — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Easton Development Partnership — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL HEALTH CORPORATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWyoming Valley Habitat for Humanity — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOU — $1,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Moses Taylor Foundati…Ppl FoundationAllone CharitiesAllone FoundationScranton Area Foundat…The Harry and Jeanett…William G McGowan Cha…United Way of the Gre…Robert H Spitz Founda…Essa Bank & Trust Fou…The Hawk Family Found…Lehigh Valley Communi…
Moses Taylor Foundation IncPA59.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peoples Security 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Empower Somerset Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Women Aware Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Peoples Security Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peoples Security Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 89 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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