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Schwartz-Mack Foundation at a glance

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Schwartz-Mack Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$491k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$383kYouth Development$263kHealth$169kAnimals$89kArts & Culture$85kFood & Nutrition$81kInternational$73kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $223k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $3k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $3k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $3k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $3k → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $3k → 15%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 13%AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $3k → 13%AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: $3k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $12k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 13%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $1k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 57 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
20

Total granted

$2.2M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

46%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationReligionArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $53k · revenue +21%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • SN
    SAFETY NET
    6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAF - COVID 19 FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NEPA
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • CH
    CYPRESS HOUSE AT ST LUKESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +228%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
2
Scranton-Lackawanna Resources Development Corporation

To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county

Human Services
3
Central Pennsylvania Humane Society

To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.

Animals
4
Keystone Hospice

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…

Human Services
5
Meals On Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc

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.

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6
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
7
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
8
The Best Little Cat House in Pa
Animals
9
Center in the Woods Inc

The center in the woods' mission is to provide the highest quality of life for older adults in southwestern pennsylvania.

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10
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Lackawanna Neighbors Inc

The organization's purpose is to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income families in scranton and surrounding lackawanna county, pa.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA: $505,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPAUNITED WAY: $480,000 · OtherUNITED WAYJEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA (HERC): $90,000 · OtherUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS OF NEPA: $85,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NEPA: $82,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $76,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $72,500 · Other+60 more: $754,800 · Other+60 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $68,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $12,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Human ServicesTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB: $40,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,000 · HealthNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $5,000 · HealthEQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $2,000 · HealthINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsPAWSITIVELY FOR THE ANIMALS: $7,000 · AnimalsTRUE FRIENDS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $4,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsUniversity of Scranton: $30,000 · EducationMarywood University: $4,500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $16,000 · Arts & CultureKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterELAN GARDENS INC ELAN SENIOR LIVING A JEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,145,800Human Services$98,500Health$60,000Animals$42,000Education$34,500Arts & Culture$32,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR: $72,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON: $68,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $53,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOME OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ELAN SKILLED NURSING AND REHAB: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAFETY NET: $30,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH RESOURCE CENTER OF THE POCONOS: $19,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC: $18,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetDEUTSCH INSTITUTE ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY RECREATION: $17,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $16,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $10,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $9,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BREAD BASKET OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $8,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELAN GARDENS INC ELAN SENIOR LIVING A JEWISH SENIOR LIFE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDLESS MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMarywood University: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEQUINES FOR FREEDOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHABAD OF THE ABINGTONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetEASTERN PA ANIMAL ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SAFETY NET ↗
  • Who funds University of Scranton ↗
  • 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 LACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS HOUSE AT ST LUKES ↗

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.

Scranton Area Foundat…Robert H Spitz Founda…The Hawk Family Found…Moses Taylor Foundati…Walter L Schautz Foun…Margaret Briggs Found…Allone FoundationAllone CharitiesRosenberg Charitable …United Way of Lackawa…The Harry and Jeanett…Eureka Foundation
Scranton Area Foundation IncPA57.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Schwartz-Mack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Schwartz-Mack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Schwartz-Mack Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Schwartz-Mack Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 87 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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