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The Lake Foundation at a glance

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The Lake 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.

$5k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$4kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kYouth Development$1kReligion$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$200Other$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $3,350, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,400 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH CENTER$500
BOYS & GIRLS OF SCRANTON$500
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$500
RONALD McDonald House$500
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN$500
WAYNE COUNTY LIBRARY$300
SACRED HEART CENTER$300
MOUNT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY$250
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10k · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$10k
$0

Still filing today

36%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RM
    RONALD McDonald House
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS OF SCRANTON
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1k
  • WR
    WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1k

Funded once

    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.

    03Its field
    03the grantee network

    4 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. 4 of the 11 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/4
    Grantees still filing
    2/4
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    RONALD McDonald House: $1,400 · OtherRONALD McDonald HouseBOYS & GIRLS OF SCRANTON: $1,400 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS OF SCRANTONWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $1,400 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERST JOSEPH CENTER: $1,400 · OtherST JOSEPH CENTERST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $1,400 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHENWAYNE COUNTY LIBRARY: $850 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY LIBRARYSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $850 · OtherSACRED HEART CENTER INC+2 more: $200 · OtherMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC: $750 · EducationWILSON FIRE COMPANY #1: $100 · Public Safety & Disaster
    Other$8,900Education$750Public Safety & Disaster$100

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON FIRE COMPANY #1: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
    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 ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
    • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
    • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
    • Who funds WILSON FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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