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The Willary 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT JOSEPH'S CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT | $47,500 |
| SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NE PA | $30,000 |
| NORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER | $26,000 |
| NATIVITY MIGUEL SCHOOL OF SCRANTON | $25,000 |
| PENN STATE PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $25,000 |
| MYCIL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $25,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $25,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS | $25,000 |
| ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 14 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton3× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +63%
- GHGEISINGER HEALTH3× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +133%
- MUMarywood University2× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- EWEOTC WORKSone grant, 2018 · $75k
- SPSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
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.
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…
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 lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Blanket Incorporated. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 97 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 Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds INDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
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: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family 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 Willary 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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