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The Honesdale National Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
129
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$328kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$98kHuman Services$84kEducation$82kCommunity Improvement$75kRecreation & Sports$65kEnvironment$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k123 grants · $145k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE COUNTY FAIR$15,000
UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNTIES$13,091
MARLEY'S MISSION$12,000
BRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES DBA PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL ON FINANCIAL LITERACY$10,000
IT TAKES A VILLAGE$10,000
WAYMART BOROUGH COUNCIL$10,000
GREATER SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$6,350
THE CHAMBER OF THE NORTHERN POCONOS$5,495
DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$5,000
BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
SHREE UMIYA DHAM HINDU CULTURE CENTER PA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,250
HONESDALE HIGH SCHOOL FBLA$4,000
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,625
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAYNE CO PA INC$3,286
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY INTERFAITH: $170 → 11%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $2k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $3k → 13%BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND: $118 → 11%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $1k → 15%BRIAN M SHEARE MEMORIAL FUND: $30 → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $3k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $2k → 13%DRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA: $428 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $3k → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $3k → 13%WAYNE COUNTY YMCA: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $3k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $385 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $1k → 13%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 13%THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC: $50 → 13%WAYNE COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $20 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
VA
NC
SC
MS
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$719k · 67 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 73 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
76

Total granted

$719k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
0%

Still filing today

57%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • WM
    WAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $104k · revenue +57%
  • WI
    WRC INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SN
    SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +55%
  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -16%
  • OD
    OLGA & DOROTHEA DESSIN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +151%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wayne Economic Development Corp

Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa

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2
Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce

Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania

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3
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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4
Wayne County Humane Society
Animals
5
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
6
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Friends of Lackawanna

Friends of lackawanna is a pennsylvania non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of the residents of northeastern pennsylvania and educating individuals regarding the health and safety of the enviroment.

Environment
8
Somerset County Chamber of Commerce

The somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.

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9
Laurel Valley Senior Citizens Center

Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.

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10
Huntingdon Cty Business & Industry

Huntingdon county business and industry, incorporated (corporation) is organized for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, recreational, educational, agricultural and civic interests of the county of huntingdon.

Employment
11
Lancaster Township Fire Department

The mission of the lancaster township fire department is to serve the community by protecting lives,property and the environment in a safe, efficient and professional manner. the fire department is responsible for extinguishing fires, fire…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department

Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties and the most unlike its peers is Brian M Sheare Memorial Fund. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Camps & RecreationCommunity Foundations and G…Hazleton Community Organiza…Community Service Organizat…K-12 Educational Institutio…Pet Rescue and AdoptionFamily Philanthropic Founda…Lackawanna County Community…Regional Hospital SystemsLow-Income Support ServicesNortheastern Pennsylvania C…Youth Sports LeaguesVolunteer Fire & Ambulance …Senior Care Facilities
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr23%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%43%35–55yr23%30%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/113
the rest of the field
9%
292/3,266

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 218 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/98
Grantees still filing
45/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $41,850 · OtherGREATER SCRANTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCEWRC INC — $39,500 · OtherWRC INCWAYNE COUNTY FAIR — $27,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES — $25,516 · OtherFM KIRBY CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE ARTS — $20,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP LACKAWANNA — $19,285 · Other+148 more — $373,232 · Other+148 moreWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $155,380 · HealthWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION I…WAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $104,406 · HealthWAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITALMARLEY'S MISSION INC — $22,550 · HealthMARLEY'S MISSION INC+13 more — $38,485 · Health+13 moreLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $19,525 · EnvironmentDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY — $13,156 · EnvironmentVALLEY IN MOTION — $6,000 · EnvironmentCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY — $5,205 · EnvironmentLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,125 · EnvironmentWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $39,925 · PhilanthropyLITTLE CREEK FOUNDATION LTD — $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,104 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — $11,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHAMBER OF THE NORTHERN POCONOS — $7,995 · Community ImprovementWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHARFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — $5,000 · Community ImprovementPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation — $2,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $1,500 · Community ImprovementRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $7,645 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA — $7,150 · Human ServicesST JOSEPHS CENTER — $3,185 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,000 · Human Services+4 more — $1,388 · Human ServicesWayne County Arts Alliance — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSusquehanna County Historical Society & Free Libra — $9,050 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT — $3,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH POCONO CULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$546,383Health$320,821Environment$49,011Philanthropy$43,529Community Improvement$32,495Human Services$32,368Arts & Culture$28,050

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $155,380 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $104,406 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $39,925 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWRC INC — $39,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES — $25,516 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARLEY'S MISSION INC — $22,550 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC — $19,525 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLEADERSHIP LACKAWANNA — $19,285 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBRIGHTER FINANCIAL FUTURES — $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY — $13,156 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOLGA & DOROTHEA DESSIN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,700 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCLEAR BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayne County Arts Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetB-K HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEYSTONE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSusquehanna County Historical Society & Free Libra — $9,050 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHAMBER OF THE NORTHERN POCONOS — $7,995 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $7,645 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LACKAWANNA — $7,150 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION — $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY — $5,205 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLACKAWANNA RIVER CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $5,125 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDORFLINGER SUYDAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — $4,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $4,055 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC — $4,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTECBRIDGE — $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY YMCA — $3,897 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC — $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH POCONO PUBLIC LIBRARY — $3,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER — $3,185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC — $2,790 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM — $2,540 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE CREEK FOUNDATION LTD — $2,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNE PIKE BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOC — $2,050 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Scranton Area Foundat…The Grimm FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…The Hawk Family Found…Allone CharitiesThe Tambur Family Fou…The John & Helen Vill…Robert H Spitz Founda…Wayne County Communit…Allone FoundationPpl FoundationHickory Hill Foundati…
Scranton Area Foundation IncPA67.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Grimm Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Allone Charities · The Tambur Family Foundation · The John & Helen Villaume Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · Allone Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Hickory Hill 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 Honesdale National Bank 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 218 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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