· Private foundation
The Hawk Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $714k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WVIA | $100,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SCRANTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CRUSAGE FOR FAMILY PRAYER | $50,000 |
| GREATER SCRANTON YMCA | $50,000 |
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NE PA | $25,000 |
| OUTREACH CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $25,000 |
| IGNATIAN VOLUNTEER CORPS OF NEPA | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA | $25,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON | $25,000 |
| SCRANTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WRC INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
137 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 21 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
- OCOUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES8× · 2018–2025 · $392k · revenue +208%
- WIWRC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +23%
- MUMarywood University9× · 2017–2025 · $296k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $600k
- SJST JOSEPHS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +37%
- TGTHE GEISINGER COMMONWEALTH MEDICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
Public lending library
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…
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.
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…
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…
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.
To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary 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.
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, and community service.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Katie Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 264 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OUTREACH - CENTER FOR COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTURY CLUB OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DEUTSCH INSTITUTE ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY RECREATION ↗
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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Allone Charities · Allone Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Ross Family Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care 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 Hawk Family 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.
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% 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.