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The Tambur Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Tambur Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$213kArts & Culture$82kHuman Services$68kHealth$57kReligion$56kRecreation & Sports$28kCrime & Legal$23kCommunity Improvement$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k78 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIEDMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$12,725
KINGS COLLEGE$5,500
ALL ABOUT KIDS BICYCLES$5,000
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
BOLD GOLD BROADCAST MEDIA$2,500
MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY$2,500
THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION$2,250
LCCC FOUNDATION$2,000
KEYSTONE COLLEGE$2,000
VALLEY IN MOTION$2,000
LUZERNE FOUNDATION$1,750
GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,667
OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY$1,000
NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%ACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS: $1k → 9%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $4k → 15%ACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS: $1k → 9%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $3k → 15%ACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS: $375 → 9%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $2k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $2k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $1k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $3k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $3k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $3k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $3k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $1k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $1k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $1k → 15%HELPING HANDS SOCIETY: $1k → 15%BRANDON'S FOREVER HOME: $500 → 15%BRANDON'S FOREVER HOME: $500 → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $500 → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $2k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $1k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $1k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $5k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $500 → 13%THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $2k → 15%THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $1k → 15%STEP BY STEP: $1k → 15%SAFE: $500 → 15%SAFE: $250 → 15%SAFE: $250 → 15%SAFE: $250 → 15%VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $250 → 15%SAFE: $250 → 15%VALLEY SANTA: $500 → 15%VALLEY SANTA: $500 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%VALLEY SANTA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION NORTHEASTERN PA: $250 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
PA
MO
KY
VA
KS
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$559k · 118 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
87

Total granted

$559k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

58%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GC
    GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2022 · $63k · revenue +10%
  • MU
    Marywood University
    6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +20%
  • BG
    BOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • FK
    FM KIRBY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • LT
    LITTLE THEATER OF WILKES BARRE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PV
    Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +224%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
2
Keystone Hospice

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…

Human Services
3
Upmc Williamsport

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…

Health
4
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

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.

Health
5
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

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…

Health
6
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

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.

Health
7
Humane Pennsylvania

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.

Animals
8
Delaware Valley University

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…

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9
Pocono Health System

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.

—
10
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
11
Punxsutawney Area Hospital Inc

To provide high quality, cost effective, primary health care and to coordinate care for patients requiring secondary and tertiary services.

Health
12
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Wyoming Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 235 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/100
Grantees still filing
68/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $27,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYLCCC FOUNDATION: $20,500 · OtherLCCC FOUNDATIONPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · OtherFRIEDMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $17,225 · OtherDIOCESE OF SCRANTON: $14,000 · OtherBOLD GOLD BROADCAST MEDIA: $12,500 · Other+138 more: $232,726 · Other+138 moreGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $62,500 · EducationGETTYSBURG COLLEGEMarywood University: $56,700 · EducationMarywood UniversityKING'S COLLEGE: $13,850 · EducationKING'S COLLEGETHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Education+6 more: $10,900 · Education+6 moreTHE HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF HAZLETON AREA SCHUYLKILL AND CARBON COUNTY INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE HELPI…CASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $13,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF W…ST JOSEPHS CENTER: $7,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesRONALD MC…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,550 · Human ServicesTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $2,500 · Human ServicesACCESSIBLE FESTIVALS INC: $2,375 · Human Services+10 more: $8,550 · Human Services+10 moreGEISINGER HEALTH: $14,667 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,250 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,200 · HealthMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $3,100 · HealthNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,500 · HealthCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $1,500 · HealthANTHONY J RINALDI JR FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health+8 more: $5,945 · HealthFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $17,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSTON FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureINDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF SCRANTON: $3,500 · Arts & CultureKISS THEATRE CO: $2,000 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $750 · Arts & CultureBOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND: $17,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $3,000 · PhilanthropyLEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $750 · PhilanthropyCAMP FREEDOM INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $4,050 · Recreation & SportsCAMP CADET: $2,800 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$341,951Education$150,950Human Services$55,475Health$37,662Arts & Culture$28,250Philanthropy$22,850Recreation & Sports$11,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $62,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $56,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND: $17,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $14,667 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF HAZLETON AREA SCHUYLKILL AND CARBON COUNTY INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $13,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $13,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPHS CENTER: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC: $7,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $6,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY: $5,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FREEDOM INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $4,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPITTSTON FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetINDO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF SCRANTON: $3,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetWyoming Valley Habitat for Humanity: $3,450 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP CADET: $2,800 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN PITTSTON PARTNERSHIP: $2,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKISS THEATRE CO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEPA INCLUSIVE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWRC INC: $1,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Top Area Little League Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANTHONY J RINALDI JR FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Lands at Hillside Farms: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEPA PET FUND AND RESCUE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetS A F E: $1,500 over 5y, 0.5% 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 GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Marywood University ↗
  • Who funds BOLD GOLD BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUND ↗
  • Who funds FM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • 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 THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON 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 ↗
  • Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS 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.

The Luzerne FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…Benco Family Foundati…Allone CharitiesWilliam G McGowan Cha…Sordoni Family Founda…Allone FoundationScranton Area Foundat…Maslow Family Foundat…The Blackhorse Founda…Northeastern Pennsylv…United Way of Wyoming…
The Luzerne FoundationPA85.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tambur Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tambur Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 235 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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