· Public charity
Pocono Mountains Community Challenge Foundation Inc
Primary purpose of organization is to accept, hold, invest, reinvest, and administer any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trusts, and property real and personal, without limitation as to amount of value, and use and disburse funds in support of other organizations who are organized and operated exclusively for religious, chartiable,…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONROE COUNTY YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES | $60,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $56,975 |
| UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY | $50,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $40,000 |
| FITZMAURICE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
To assist at-risk individuals
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
To provide our clients with developmental disabilities dignified, compassionate, professional care in a family environment for the duration of their needs.
Growing monroe county's economy by creating new and diversified job opportunities for its citizens.
Family promise of monroe county provides safe shelter, meals, and support services for homeless families with children through a collaborative network of local congregations.
The organization operates an adult program for developmentally delayed individuals of post-school age offering plans that are designed to advance their living skills.
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.
To provide services to Monroe County residents with mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse needs.
To train and place on jobs disadvantaged, unemployed and undeemployed persons in montgomery county, PA as well as providing child education programs and care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pocono Mountains United Way and the most unlike its peers is Salvation Army East Stroudsburg Corps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Pocono Mountains United Way · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · Mount Airy Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Todd and Shari Nelson Family Fdn Inc · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Pocono Mountains Community Challenge Foundation Inc 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.
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.