· Private foundation
Sordoni Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY - SCHOLARSHIP | $165,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNAT | $50,000 |
| LACKAWANNA COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $41,958 |
| THE INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| GREATER WILKES BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP | $25,000 |
| RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| PATRIOTS COVE INC | $15,000 |
| LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN TIER INDUSTRY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC | $5,000 |
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, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 11 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- LCLACKAWANNA COLLEGE5× · 2018–2024 · $350k · revenue +48%
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2022 · $260k · revenue +40%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH4× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TJTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +148%
- GCGEISINGER CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +48%
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Public lending library
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Pennsylvania highway information association was established to gather and disseminate information to educate the public on the importance and value of the modern and safe highway system to provide for the economic growth of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties and the most unlike its peers is Unite the World. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 112 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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS COVE INC ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
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: The Luzerne Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Allone Charities · The Willary Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Allone Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Maslow Family Foundation Inc
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 Sordoni Family 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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