· Private foundation
Sordoni Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Norman Rockwell Museum | $75,000 |
| King's College | $50,939 |
| Lackawanna College | $50,000 |
| Pennsylvania Chamber Foundation | $50,000 |
| All One Charities | $50,000 |
| WVIA | $50,000 |
| Luzerne County Historical Society | $25,000 |
| Threefold Education Association | $25,000 |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | $20,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Brandywine River Museum of Art | $15,000 |
| Father Judge High School | $10,000 |
| Volunters In Medicine | $10,000 |
| United Way of Wyoming Valley | $10,000 |
| Childrens Scholarship Fund of Phila | $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 (FY21–25, $240k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NRNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +11%
- LCLACKAWANNA COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +48%
- KCKING'S COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GCGEISINGER CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +70%
- TSTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -20%
- GCGeisinger Commonwealth Medical Collegeone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Thiel college empowers individuals to reach their full potential by creating a diverse and inclusive learning environment that ensures educational excellence, stimulates global awareness, and promotes ethical leadership. in doing so, thiel…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King's College and the most unlike its peers is Hoyt Library. 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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 72 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 NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds ALLONE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
- Who funds BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARRE ↗
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 · Sordoni Family Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · Allone Charities · Allone Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Scranton Area 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 Foundation Inc 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.
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
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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