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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.
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.
The 27 grants below total $1,007,204 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,358,127 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $350,923 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 $10k9 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $221k
- $250k+1 grant · $429k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS ENTITIES5000 | $429,470 |
| BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY | $162,583 |
| SCHUYLKILL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS | $57,984 |
| ASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY | $47,991 |
| CHARLES BABER CEMETERY | $35,522 |
| EMMANUEL CHURCH OF CHR | $33,209 |
| MINERSVILLE AREA SD | $23,883 |
| RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| LASTING LEGACY FOR POTTSVILLE | $17,399 |
| ST NICHOLAS UKRAINIAN | $15,059 |
| DONORSCHOOSEORG | $15,000 |
| WASINGTON FIRE CO AMBULANCE A | $13,535 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT RESCOUNSEL CT | $12,417 |
| SCHUYLKILL COUNTY PED ORTHOPE | $12,417 |
| SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS | $11,837 |
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, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- APASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +39% · 41% of their budget
- TBTHE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC4× · 2020–2024 · $268k · revenue +44%
- NVNUREMBERG-WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HSHillside SPCA Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +58%
- GJGYM JAM THERAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2021 · $11k
- GFGAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -38%
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.
Public lending library
Provide library services to Saxton, PA & the surrounding area.
Provision of free library service to residents of the schuylkill haven, pa area.
Public Library providing educational, recreational and public services to approximately 6,000 Sewickley Township and Westmoreland County residents.
Fire & emergency protection
Public library serving the public in the pocono region of pennsylvania
Public lending library
Public library
The Schuylkill Valley Community Library is dedicated to providing resources and opportunities that support the literacy, technological and leisure needs of our patrons.
Operate a public library
Provide community with Fire and Ambulance service
The Selbyville Public Library provides free access to information and library materials to residents and visitors to Sussex County in the State of Delaware.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schuylkill County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Shenandoah Community Ambulance Assoc. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 39 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 ASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds NUREMBERG-WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Shenandoah Community Ambulance Assoc ↗
- Who funds SUGARLOAF FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds The Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Schuylkill Cou ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC ORTHOPEDICS ↗
- Who funds POTTSVILLE AREA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON FIRE COMPANY COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds RINGTOWN AREA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
- Who funds RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHAMOKIN-COAL TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POTTSVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINERSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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: 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
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 Schuylkill Area Community 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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