· Private foundation
The John & Helen Villaume Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of THE JOHN & HELEN VILLAUME FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| DEVEREUX ADVANCED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $5,000 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $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 |
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, $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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 76% of The John & Helen Villaume Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 32% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +85% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
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 Teleios Theatro Company. 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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 57 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 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 Wayne County Family Center ↗
- Who funds COMPANY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HAWLEY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- 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 SCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY HEROIN PREVENTION TASK FORCE 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: 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
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 John & Helen Villaume 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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