· Private foundation
The Tambur Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k78 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIEDMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $12,725 |
| KINGS COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALL ABOUT KIDS BICYCLES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| BOLD GOLD BROADCAST MEDIA | $2,500 |
| THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| VALLEY IN MOTION | $2,000 |
| LCCC FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KEYSTONE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| LUZERNE FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,667 |
| CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
118 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE4× · 2018–2022 · $63k · revenue +10%
- MUMarywood University6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +20%
- FKFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FKFM KIRBY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $8k
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $6k
- LTLITTLE THEATER OF WILKES BARREone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
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…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
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…
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, & community service.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
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.
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.
To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary services.
Our vision is a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life. our guiding principles are service - to make a difference in the lives of our patients/families,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley and the most unlike its peers is Unite the World. 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 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 236 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 GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds FM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds BOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF HAZLETON AREA SCHUYLKILL AND CARBON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 Luzerne Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Allone Charities · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Sordoni Family Foundation · Allone Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · The Blackhorse Foundation · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation · United Way of Wyoming Valley
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 Tambur 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.