· Private foundation
The John & Helen Villaume Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA AND WAYNE COUNTIES | $30,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $27,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY YMCA | $25,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMM FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
| VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| DEVEREUX ADVANCED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,345 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BETHANY CHILDRENS HOUSE INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
| AMERICA RESPONDS WITH LOVE INC | $540 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 76% of The John & Helen Villaume Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 32%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT7× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +453%
- WCWayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +51%
- VIVICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- WMWAYNE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $57k
- WCWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
- WCWRIGHT CENTER FOR COMM HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
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.
Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa
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…
To preserve a cinema theatre in Waynesboro as a crucial component of a vibrant downtown and overall community quality of life. Our goal is to renovate the existing closed theater into an attractive high quality facility which can be leased…
The mission of wayne cares is to provide food and other material relief to persons in need, primarily in radnor township.
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
To provide needed space for auditorium and community events. Provide concerts, literary and cultural events and play selected films to rural county not available in any other facility.
Operation of three senior citizens centers with approximately 450 seniors citizens thru the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging.
Educate and encourage the Arts
Community theater production
It is the mission of the center to provide quality health care services to the residents of the rural areas of wayne county and the public traveling through the area.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Wayne County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMPANY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Family Center ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAWLEY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PIKE ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Harmony Presents ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HEROIN PREVENTION TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Wayne County Community Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc · Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · David Katz Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Charities · Ppl Foundation · The Van Horn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John & Helen Villaume Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Helen Villaume Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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