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Schuylkill Area Community Foundation

The mission of the SCHUYLKILL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to serve the interests of the philanthropic donors and to become stewards of financial gifts that support our community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Itemized grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$428k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$13,281
Largest grant, FY2025
$61,987
Organizations funded a year
23 to 27
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Schuylkill Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$428k20%
FY202427$1.0M4%
FY202327$908k11%
FY202226$734k15%
FY202123$956k9%
FY202023$624k13%
FY201923$695k4%
FY201823$582k22%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$927kPublic Benefit$453kReligion$424kPublic Safety & Disaster$412kMembership Benefit$232kCommunity Improvement$114kHealth$104kHuman Services$92kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Schuylkill County Board of Commissioners$448,9699n/a
Ashland Public Library$391,234941%
The Bloomsburg University Foundationinc$267,80941%
Charles Baber Cemetery$231,8308n/a
Emmanuel Church of Chr$218,2308n/a
Lasting Legacy for Pottsville$141,2129n/a
Minersville Area Sd$137,5239n/a
Schuylkill Women in Crisis$105,66991%
St Nicholas Ukrainian$105,0369n/a
Nuremberg-Weston Volunteer Fire Company$104,935920%
Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of Schuylkill Area Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Schuylkill County Board of Commissioners$448,9699n/a
Ashland Public Library$391,234941%
The Bloomsburg University Foundationinc$267,80941%
Charles Baber Cemetery$231,8308n/a
Emmanuel Church of Chr$218,2308n/a
Lasting Legacy for Pottsville$141,2129n/a
Minersville Area Sd$137,5239n/a
Schuylkill Women in Crisis$105,66991%
St Nicholas Ukrainian$105,0369n/a
Nuremberg-Weston Volunteer Fire Company$104,935920%
Donorschooseorg$104,00090%
The Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou$102,21591%
Schuylkill County Society for Pediatric Orthopedics$98,469925%
Pottsville Area Emergency Medical Services$89,81190%
Sugarloaf Fire Company Inc$88,9622n/a
Shenandoah Community Ambulance Assoc$88,96227%
Schuylkill Headwaters Association Inc$84,942810%
Washington Fire Company Community Ambulance Inc$79,26975%
Borough of Ashland$71,5218n/a
St Charles Borromeo$69,9469n/a
Ringtown Area Library Association$60,892812%
Twin County Lions Club Foundation$55,5158n/a
Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary High School$39,7352n/a
Charles Baber Preservation Trust of Pottsville Pa$38,0401n/a
Church of St Patrick$36,6706n/a
Emmanuel Lutheran Church$35,7401n/a
First United Methodist Church$30,6094n/a
Minersville Public Library$29,3474n/a
Marian Catholic High School$26,0212n/a
Hillside SPCA Inc$25,00013%
Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc$20,00015%
Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library Inc$15,95732%
Minersville Public Library Association Inc$13,5252n/a
Gym Jam Therapeutics Inc$11,3801n/a
Shamokin Area High Alumni Ass$10,3612n/a
Borough of Ashland$9,5611n/a
Gaudenzia Foundation Inc$7,25010%
Pottsville Free Public Library$6,27011%
Schuylkill Community Action$6,00010%
Help Net Ministries Inc$5,60619%
Shamokin Area HS Alumni Assoc Ed$5,5961n/a
Trinity Academy of Father Wal$5,4001n/a
Schuylkill County Historical Society$5,10013%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Schuylkill Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAshland Public Library: $391,234 over 9y, 41% of budgetThe Bloomsburg University Foundationinc: $267,809 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSchuylkill Women in Crisis: $105,669 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNuremberg-Weston Volunteer Fire Company: $104,935 over 9y, 20% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $104,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou: $102,215 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSchuylkill County Society for Pediatric Orthopedics: $98,469 over 9y, 25% of budgetPottsville Area Emergency Medical Services: $89,811 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetShenandoah Community Ambulance Assoc: $88,962 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetSchuylkill Headwaters Association Inc: $84,942 over 8y, 10% of budgetWashington Fire Company Community Ambulance Inc: $79,269 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetRingtown Area Library Association: $60,892 over 8y, 12% of budgetHillside SPCA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRed Creek Wildlife Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetShamokin-Coal Township Public Library Inc: $15,957 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGaudenzia Foundation Inc: $7,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPottsville Free Public Library: $6,270 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSchuylkill Community Action: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHelp Net Ministries Inc: $5,606 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSchuylkill County Historical Society: $5,100 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Will S & Anna S Fox FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation · Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust · Benevolent Association of Pottsville · Herman Yudacufski Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Snayberger Memorial Fdn (Pf) · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Schuylkill Area Community Foundation

How much does Schuylkill Area Community Foundation give?
Schuylkill Area Community Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $428,008, out of $1,469,877 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Schuylkill Area Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Public Benefit (8%), Religion (7%).
Who are Schuylkill Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Schuylkill County Board of Commissioners ($449k), Ashland Public Library ($391k), The Bloomsburg University Foundationinc ($268k).
Does Schuylkill Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Schuylkill Area Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Will S & Anna S Fox Foundation, Ben D Spagolio Charitable Trust, Benevolent Association of Pottsville.
Where is Schuylkill Area Community Foundation based?
Schuylkill Area Community Foundation is based in PA.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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