· Private foundation
Robert H Spitz Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $582k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON | $62,500 |
| INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $50,000 |
| NEW HYTES | $50,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF SCRANTON | $46,542 |
| ELAN GARDENS INC | $30,000 |
| AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA | $30,000 |
| SCRANTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,536 |
| TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| THE BOROUGH OF DICKSON CITY | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY MI PRESCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JOBSFIRSTNYC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA | $23,000 |
| NORTHEAST PA AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER | $20,000 |
| OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $20,000 |
| JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS 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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 Robert H Spitz Foundation’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, 96% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
- OCOUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES7× · 2018–2024 · $170k · revenue +208%
- AFAGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA4× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GCGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MEDone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +24%
- EEOTCone grant, 2017 · $30k
- CSCATHOLIC SOICAL SERVICES OF THE DICOESE OF SCRANTONone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
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…
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
Provide emergency medical services.
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Our mission is to provide the highest quality of services to empower all people in their pursuit of independence and interdependence in a full and inclusive community.
Skills of central pennsylvania, inc., a private, non-profit organization, is committed to creating opportunities and providing support for people who need specialized services to enhance all aspects of their lives. the vision for skills of…
The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.
Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unite the World. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 161 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF THE ABINGTONS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HYTES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VALHALLA VETERANS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEPA PET FUND AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVELY FOR THE ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Adopt A Boxer Rescue ↗
- Who funds THE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUIGLEY SHELTER PETS INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED ↗
- Who funds EQUINES FOR FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Allone Charities · Allone Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · Schwartz-Mack Foundation · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Luzerne 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 Robert H Spitz 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.
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.
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