How much did ROBERT H SPITZ FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of ROBERT H SPITZ FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

empowermenttransportationtreatmentmillfood

2019

cypresstrainingdogseniorshousingclinicpets

2020

kidscovidstudenthealthlearningcurriculumemployment

2021

vnaenvironmental educationmental healthyoungcapitalactionadults

2022

staffingkeepinginformationdigitalcovidoperationcapital

2023

educational programmingspraytruechildkeystoneanimal welfaremoms

2024

militaryland preservationfellowshipferal catpet rescuepathwayschild care

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 65 grants

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

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$18M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
JOBSFIRSTNYC$25,000
DISCOVERY MI PRESCHOOL$25,000
THE BOROUGH OF DICKSON CITY$25,000
TREATMENT COURT ADVOCACY CENTER OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA$23,000
NORTHEAST PA AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES$20,000
NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.7M · 87 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

87 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$642k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+32%

Still filing today

38%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationEnvironmentReligionOther

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

SA
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2022 · $263k · revenue +303%
OC
OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES
7× · 2018–2024 · $170k · revenue +208%
FF
FOUNDATION FOR THE JEWISH ELDERLY
3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +19%

Funded once

GC
GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +24%
CS
CATHOLIC SOICAL SERVICES OF THE DICOESE OF SCRANTON
one grant, 2022 · $30k
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EOTC
one grant, 2017 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care

Education

Susquehanna Physician Services

Susquehanna physician services is a subsidiary of the exempt entity upmc suquehanna. our vision is to create an integrated community health system that delivers world class care. our values are to carefully place our patients and their…

Health

Central Pennsylvania Clinic- a Medical

Diagnosis and treatment of, and providing primary and subspecialty care for special children and adults with genetic diseases.

Health

Central Pennsylvania Community

Perpetual community fund to aid civic & charitable projects

Philanthropy

Scranton Primary Health Care Center

The center provides comprehensive health and dental services for residents of scranton pa and other communities in lackawanna and surrounding counties.

Health

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

The college's mission is to educate for excellence in healthcare practice, leadership, and the continuous acquisition of knowledge.

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Humane Pennsylvania

Provides adoption centers, non-profit vet hospitals and clinics, & animal welfare mgmt services

Animals

Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

The mission of hospice of central pennsylvania is to provide the highest quality of emotional, physical, and spiritual support with compassion and respect.

Human Services

South Central Emergency Medical

Provide emergency medical services.

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Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

To protect and restore the region's land and water, create gardens and green spaces, and preserve fallingwater.

Environment

Keystone Care

Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.

Health

Pennsylvania Women Work

Pa women work empowers women to prepare for and find lasting employment that pays a family-sustaining wage. the mission of the organization is to transform womens lives through empowerment, employment and economic independence.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilkes University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/82

the rest of the field

224/2,850

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.

05the grantee network

76 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/76

Grantees still filing

55/76

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,852,083Human Services$1,379,000Animals$470,500Philanthropy$270,500Education$213,301Religion$210,500Youth Development$154,709

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.

Scranton Area Foundation IncPA105.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Luzerne Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Allone Charities · Schwartz-Mack Foundation · Allone Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust · The Ross Family 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SCRANTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232527228 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SCRANTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION INCORPORATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Robert H Spitz Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert H Spitz Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROBERT H SPITZ FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

76 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert H Spitz Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROBERT H SPITZ FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

76 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert H Spitz Foundation?

More from the funding graph