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Sordoni Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$521k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$903kPhilanthropy$318kCommunity Improvement$279kSocial Science$72kHuman Services$26kPublic Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $326k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Norman Rockwell Museum$75,000
King's College$50,939
WVIA$50,000
Pennsylvania Chamber Foundation$50,000
Lackawanna College$50,000
All One Charities$50,000
Threefold Education Association$25,000
Luzerne County Historical Society$25,000
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine$20,000
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
Brandywine River Museum of Art$15,000
Open Discourse Coalition$10,000
Misericordia University$10,000
Childrens Scholarship Fund of Phila$10,000
United Way of Wyoming Valley$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Telespond Senior Services: $25k → 13%Cori's Place: $5k → 15%All One Charities: $50k → 15%All One Charities: $50k → 15%All One Charities: $50k → 15%All One Charities: $30k → 15%All One Charities: $30k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 39 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
29

Total granted

$4.1M
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NR
    NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +11%
  • LC
    LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +48%
  • KC
    KING'S COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • GC
    GEISINGER CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +70%
  • TS
    TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -20%
  • GC
    Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Gettysburg College

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

Education
3
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…

—
4
Lycoming College

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.

Education
5
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Cedar Crest College

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…

Education
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Thiel College

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…

Education
10
Point Park University

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…

—
11
Susquehanna University

Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.

Education
12
Wheaton College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King's College; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 72 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $400,000 · EducationLACKAWANNA COLLEGEKING'S COLLEGE: $350,889 · EducationKING'S COLLEGEWILKES UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $167,500 · EducationGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MEDMarywood University: $85,000 · EducationMarywood UniversityMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $65,000 · EducationOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $50,000 · Education+5 more: $12,500 · EducationNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $675,000 · Arts & CultureNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT …NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $230,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA …SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $33,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION: $142,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATIONPennsylvania Chamber Foundation: $125,000 · OtherPennsylvania Chamber Foun…Wilkes University - Sordoni Art Gallery: $105,000 · OtherWilkes University - Sordo…PA Chamber Foundation: $90,000 · OtherPA Chamber FoundationBrandywine River Museum of Art: $90,000 · OtherBrandywine River Museum o…BACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $46,500 · OtherInstitute for Public Policy & Econ Devel: $45,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $42,500 · OtherPennsylvania Chamber Education Fdn: $35,000 · Other+31 more: $248,500 · Other+31 moreThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $255,000 · HealthThe Magee Mem…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $215,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN…GEISINGER CLINIC: $30,000 · HealthGEISINGER CLI…ALLONE CHARITIES: $210,000 · Human ServicesTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $170,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCATO INSTITUTE: $9,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Public Benefit
Education$1,425,889Arts & Culture$1,021,000Other$969,500Health$500,000Human Services$241,000Philanthropy$175,000Public Benefit$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $675,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetLACKAWANNA COLLEGE: $400,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $350,889 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents: $255,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $230,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $215,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetALLONE CHARITIES: $210,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $170,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $167,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMarywood University: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $65,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $50,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBACK MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $46,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC: $46,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $37,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetGEISINGER CLINIC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFORK OVER LOVE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARRE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS FIESTA INC: $8,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCORI'S PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER NEPA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOYT LIBRARY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 LITTLE THEATRE OF WILKES-BARRE ↗

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 FoundationSordoni Family Founda…The Blackhorse Founda…Moses Taylor Foundati…William G McGowan Cha…Nesbitt Family Charit…Maslow Family Foundat…The Tambur Family Fou…Allone CharitiesAllone FoundationRobert H Spitz Founda…Scranton Area Foundat…
The Luzerne FoundationPA36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sordoni Foundation Inc 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 72 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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