Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Sordoni Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $521k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sordoni Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $520k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $486k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $476k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $451k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $581k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $491k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $448k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $462k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc | $675,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Lackawanna College | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| King's College | $350,889 | 9 | 0% |
| The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents | $255,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association | $230,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Wilkes University | $225,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Volunteers in Medicine | $215,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Allone Charities | $210,000 | 5 | 4% |
| United Way of Wyoming Valley | $170,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Geisinger Commonwealth Sch of Med | $167,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($867k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sordoni Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Sordoni Foundation Inc
- How much does Sordoni Foundation Inc give?
- Sordoni Foundation Inc reported 32 grants totaling $520,939 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sordoni Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (29%), Health (21%).
- Who are Sordoni Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc ($675k), Lackawanna College ($400k), King's College ($351k).
- Does Sordoni Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sordoni Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sordoni Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luzerne Foundation, Sordoni Family Foundation, The Blackhorse Foundation.
- Where is Sordoni Foundation Inc based?
- Sordoni Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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