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Sordoni Family Foundation at a glance

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Sordoni Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$535k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.6MHealth$495kPhilanthropy$288kCommunity Improvement$281kPublic Benefit$211kCrime & Legal$142kArts & Culture$141kEnvironment$133kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $295k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY - SCHOLARSHIP$115,000
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNAT$80,000
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE$50,000
GEISINGER HEALTH$50,000
WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$45,354
GREATER WILKES BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP$25,000
THE INSTITUTE$25,000
WILKES UNIVERSITY$20,000
RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY$20,000
PATRIOTS COVE INC$15,000
THE UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNTIES$10,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$10,000
CASA OF WYOMING COUNTY$10,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
CANDYS PLACE$5,000
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 (FY19–25, $163k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF WYOMING COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CANDYS PLACE: $5k → 15%CANDYS PLACE: $3k → 15%THE INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%THE INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%THE INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $10k → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYL: $10k → 15%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 47 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
63

Total granted

$3.6M
$560k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+8%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LC
    LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +48%
  • GH
    GEISINGER HEALTH
    5× · 2019–2025 · $300k · revenue +133%
  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $265k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue +148%
  • GC
    GEISINGER CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +48%
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
Delaware Valley University

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…

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2
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
3
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
4
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
5
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

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.…

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6
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
7
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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8
Pennsylvania Highway Information Association

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…

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9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
Pocono Health System

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.

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11
Endless Mountains Heritage Region

To maintain and enhance the unique rural character and culture of the endless mountains.

Environment
12
Lehigh Valley Health Network

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 115 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/74
Grantees still filing
53/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationLACKAWANNA COLLEGEWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $376,494 · EducationWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY …MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $265,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYMarywood University: $196,000 · EducationMarywood UniversityWILKES UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITY+4 more: $43,000 · EducationMARYWOOD UNIVERSITY - SCHOLARSHIP: $395,000 · OtherMARYWOOD UNIVERSITY - SCHOLARSHIPUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE…INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMIC …COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONLUZERNE CNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CT: $55,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $51,000 · OtherSCRANTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST: $58,000 · Other+73 more: $576,500 · Other+73 moreGEISINGER HEALTH: $300,000 · HealthGEISINGER HEALT…CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $75,000 · HealthCHILDRENS SVC C…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $60,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN M…GEISINGER CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthGEISINGER CLINI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · HealthWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $32,500 · Health+3 moreTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES: $180,000 · Public BenefitPATRIOTS COVE INC: $32,000 · Public BenefitLEADERSHIP NORTHEAST: $14,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public BenefitUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $185,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $8,100 · PhilanthropyGREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $150,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $13,500 · Community ImprovementTHE INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $70,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $7,500 · Human Services
Education$1,390,494Other$1,485,500Health$577,500Public Benefit$227,500Philanthropy$203,100Community Improvement$163,500Human Services$162,500

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 budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $400,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $376,494 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $265,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarywood University: $196,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $185,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES: $180,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $150,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $100,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $70,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST: $58,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $51,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGEISINGER CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC: $35,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetDELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $32,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPATRIOTS COVE INC: $32,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY: $20,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP NORTHEAST: $14,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CHARITABLE MANAGEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST HOMES FOUNDATION UMH NY CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $8,100 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFINE ARTS FIESTA INC: $8,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER NEPA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMOND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETROACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • 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 THE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds GEISINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTERS SHARING THE HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE AND LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOTS COVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTHEAST ↗

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.

The Luzerne FoundationThe Tambur Family Fou…Ppl FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…Scranton Area Foundat…Benco Family Foundati…Allone CharitiesThe Willary FoundationRobert H Spitz Founda…Allone FoundationWilliam G McGowan Cha…Maslow Family Foundat…
The Luzerne FoundationPA55.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sordoni Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sordoni Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Sordoni Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sordoni Family 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 115 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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