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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,…

$227k
Granted FY2017
5
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $167k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FITZMAURICE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20k → 12%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 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
Monroe County Sheltercare Inc

To assist at-risk individuals

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2
Monroe-Union County Community

To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
4
Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens Inc

To provide our clients with developmental disabilities dignified, compassionate, professional care in a family environment for the duration of their needs.

Human Services
5
Monroe County Business Development Corporation

Growing monroe county's economy by creating new and diversified job opportunities for its citizens.

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6
Family Promise of the Poconos Inc

Family promise of monroe county provides safe shelter, meals, and support services for homeless families with children through a collaborative network of local congregations.

Human Services
7
Developmental Education Services of Monroe County Inc

The organization operates an adult program for developmentally delayed individuals of post-school age offering plans that are designed to advance their living skills.

Human Services
8
Human Resources Center Inc

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

Human Services
9
Monroevillemonroe County Economic Development Auth

Economic development authority for monroeville, al and monroe county.

Community Improvement
10
Human Support Services

To provide services to Monroe County residents with mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse needs.

Health
11
Morgantown Sober Living Inc
Housing & Shelter
12
Montgomery County Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc

To train and place on jobs disadvantaged, unemployed and undeemployed persons in montgomery county, PA as well as providing child education programs and care

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pocono Mountains United Way; 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.
03the grantee network

11 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONROE COUNTY YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE INC: $60,000 · OtherMONROE COUNTY YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE INCMONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $56,975 · OtherMONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $40,000 · OtherMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INCPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED …FITZMAURICE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFITZMAURI…
Other$156,975Philanthropy$50,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONROE COUNTY YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SERVICE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetMONROE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $56,975 over 1y, 17% of budgetPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMONROE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

Pocono Mountains United WayPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pocono Mountains Community Challenge Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pocono Mountains Community Challenge Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2018) is on record and reports $225k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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