· Private foundation
The Ann and Joseph Farda Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH AUXILIARY | $50,600 |
| POCONO FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $26,225 |
| SAINT LUKE'S MONROE CAMPUS | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $21,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MONROE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CHURCH | $6,000 |
| ALLONE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY RED KETTLE | $5,400 |
| MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL BSA | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SAFE MONROE (FORMERLY WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE COUNTY) | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
73 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE COUNTY6× · 2019–2024 · $163k · revenue +24%
- MCMONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +532%
- AFALLONE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- PHPOCONO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION PLEDGEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MHMOST HOLY TRINITY PARISHone grant, 2018 · $10k
- DODIOCESE OF SCRANTON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Provide emergency ambulance services
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.
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.
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.
The trust is dedicated to protecting the natural heritage of the pocono mountains region, in northeastern pennsylvaina, by conserving land and inspiring people to care for, enjoy, and explore their natural world.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…
Pocono mountains united way's mission is to engage and mobilize resources to improve lives through accelerated community change.
Elk regional health center d/b/a penn highlands elk will be the healthcare provider of choice for our communities through a commitment to service, quality, people, finance and growth.
The council is a key component of the emergency medical services system in central pennsylvania, serving as a vital link between local ems agencies and the pennsylvania department of health. as a independent non-profit corporation and the…
Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network, part of jefferson health. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Monroe County and the most unlike its peers is Summit School of the Poconos Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 138 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 POCONO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCES OF MONROE CTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds POCONO ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds POCONO VNA-HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SCHOOL OF THE POCONOS INC ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
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: Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · The Lester G Abeloff Foundation · R Dale & Frances M Hughes Fdn 47f100011 · Mount Airy Foundation · The Weiler Family Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Ppl Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Ann and Joseph Farda Foundation 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.
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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