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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HOWARD GARDNER SCHOOL$5,000
ACLAMO$5,000
BETHEL AME CHURCH$5,000
INNOVATION ARTS ACADEMY$5,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$3,966
PROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER$3,500
GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$2,500
WILKES UNIVERSITY$2,500
CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE$2,500
ENDLESS MOUNTAINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,500
EMPOWER SOMERSET INC$1,500
SIGHTS FOR HOPE$1,000
ELIJAH'S PROMISE$1,000
B-K HEALTH CENTER DBA NEPA COMMUNITY HEALTH$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $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 its 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%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS: $5k → 12%PROVIDENCE PREGNANCY CENTER: $3k → 13%HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOC OF SO 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%OUTREACH-CNTR FO COMM RESOURCES: $10k → 13%HANDICAPPED CHILDRENS ASSOC OF SOUTHERN 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%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $3k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $2k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $1k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $1k → 11%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 13%OUTREACH-CNTR FO COMM RESOURCES: $5k → 13%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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
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

  • 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

  • TC
    TOWN CLOCK COMM DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TS
    THIRD STREET ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • VI
    VALLEY IN MOTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +39%
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
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern Pennsylvania; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $10,000 · EducationGEISINGER CO…MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY 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 budgetRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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 budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Tier Industry and Education Consortium In: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOCONO ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE POCONOS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF NORRISTOWN: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Peoples Security Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peoples Security Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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