· Public charity
Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc
The mission of the pocono mountains vacation bureau is to promote the pocono mountains, pa, tourist destinations of carbon, monroe, pike and wayne counties as the designated tourist promotion agency.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $709,099 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $989,712 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $280,613 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $496k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAUCH CHUNK LAKE PARK | $50,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $35,475 |
| BOROUGH OF JIM THORPE | $30,000 |
| CHAMBER OF THE NORTHERN POCONOS | $25,000 |
| PIKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP | $20,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY | $20,000 |
| BARRETT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS | $20,000 |
| POCONO TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT | $20,000 |
| BOROUGH OF JT | $19,440 |
| DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY | $19,292 |
| KETTLE CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $18,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY FAIR | $15,819 |
| GO COLLABORATIVE | $15,027 |
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $444k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BOBOROUGH OF JIM THORPE3× · 2022–2024 · $68k
- PTPOCONO TOWNSHIP2× · 2022–2024 · $60k
- MSMIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP3× · 2022–2024 · $50k
Funded once
- TTTUNKHANNOCK TOWNSHIPone grant, 2023 · $15k
- LLLittle League Baseball Inc 2382904 East Stroudsburg LLone grant, 2022 · $14k
- CTCOOLBAUGH TWPone grant, 2022 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Promote tourism in Centre County PA
Preserve History of Area
Promotion activities for downtown kernersville.
Festivals Fredonia contributes to a high quality of life in Fredonia and surrounding communities by presenting lively recreation and cultural opportunities for residents and visitors The five core festivals stimulate tourism highlight…
Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa
Promote tourism
The organization shall be anon-profit entity comprised of interested citizens and business leaders throught the region that will actively engage in the preservation of historical buildings, properties and artifacts throughout washington…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Highlands Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Kettle Creek Environmental Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 69 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.
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.
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GO COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds JIM THORPE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MILFORD ENHANCEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER OF THE NORTHERN POCONOS ↗
- Who funds Pike County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Kettle Creek Environmental Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Little League Baseball Inc 2382904 East Stroudsburg LL ↗
- Who funds DORFLINGER SUYDAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HONESDALE REVITALIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLD JAIL MUSEUM AND HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE-DREHER-STERLING FAIR ASSOC ↗
- Who funds UP FOR GROWTH ↗
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: The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The John & Helen Villaume Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc · Litzenberger Family Foundation · William E Chatlos Foundation · Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Grimm Foundation · Ppl 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 Vacation Bureau 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.