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Thalenfeld Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Thalenfeld Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$200kHuman Services$171kReligion$122kHealth$105kPhilanthropy$91kArts & Culture$8kFood & Nutrition$5kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION$37,500
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$24,000
TEMPLE B'NAI B'RITH$10,000
ALLONE CHARITIES$10,000
CHILDRENS SERVICE CENTER$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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA of Luzerne County: $3k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$751k · 16 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$751k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-14%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • AC
    ALLONE CHARITIES
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +350%
  • CS
    CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +95%
  • MU
    MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TI
    TEMPLE ISREAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • CO
    CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -14%
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
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community service.

Health
2
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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3
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
4
Wesley Spectrum Services

To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care .

Human Services
5
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
6
Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation
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7
Wilson College

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

Education
8
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.

—
9
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
10
Widener University

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

Education
11
Wesley Family Services

To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care.

Human Services
12
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Allone Charities; the most unlike its peers is Catholic Social Services. 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

9 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. 9 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NEPA: $148,537 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NEPAIndividual grant recipient: $138,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTemple B'nai B'rith: $81,500 · OtherTemple B'nai B'rithJEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF NEPA: $25,207 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $24,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL: $23,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $41,000 · Other+9 moreWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $180,000 · EducationWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPAR…THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $39,500 · EducationTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATIONMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITYALLONE CHARITIES: $59,500 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $2,500 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $45,000 · HealthNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $4,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$501,244Education$233,500Human Services$62,000Health$45,000Arts & Culture$4,500

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 budgetWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALLONE CHARITIES: $59,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCatholic Social Services: $2,000 over 2y, 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 WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALLONE CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗

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.

Maslow Family Foundat…The Blackhorse Founda…William G McGowan Cha…The Luzerne FoundationSordoni Family Founda…Shoval FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…Benevento and Mayo Fo…Davidowitz Foundation…Hannah S & Samuel Coh…United Way of Wyoming…The Tambur Family Fou…
Maslow Family Foundation IncPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Blackhorse Foundation · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Luzerne Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · Shoval Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Benevento and Mayo Foundation · Davidowitz Foundation Inc · Hannah S & Samuel Cohn Memorial Fndn · United Way of Wyoming Valley · The Tambur Family Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 23 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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