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Schwartz-Mack 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $75,000 |
| NEPA YOUTH SHELTER | $35,000 |
| SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION - GARDEN ROOM | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA - HERC | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE POOR | $15,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA | $15,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,000 |
| SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION (NEPA GIVES) | $12,000 |
| ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PA | $10,000 |
| ALLIED SERVICES REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- TATHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +21%
- JHJEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
- UOUniversity of Scranton3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SCSAF - COVID 19 FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NEPAone grant, 2019 · $23k
- CHCYPRESS HOUSE AT ST LUKESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +228%
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.
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Provides nourishing, well-balanced meals to homebound, elderly, and/or disabled persons throughout lackawanna county to improve the health and quality of life of the local community.
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.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.
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.
To provide a variety of social services to individuals and families residing in northeastern pennsylvania, including, but not limited to, counseling, provision of goods, and provision of housing.
The organization's purpose is to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income families in scranton and surrounding lackawanna county, pa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safety Net. 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 31 years old; the field is 22. 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 87 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 FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds SAFETY NET ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS ↗
- Who funds BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEUTSCH INSTITUTE ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY RECREATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS HOUSE AT ST LUKES ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Eureka 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 Schwartz-Mack 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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