How much does The Willary Foundation give?

The Willary Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $548,990 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Willary Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Willary Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ($155k), Black Scranton Project Inc ($143k), Geisinger Health ($130k).

Does The Willary Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Willary Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Willary Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Hawk Family Foundation.

Where is The Willary Foundation based?

The Willary Foundation is based in PA.

Foundation Dossiers

Pennsylvania · Private foundation

The Willary Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$549k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 24
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 24; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $9.8M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Willary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	22	$514k	64%
FY2023	24	$565k	50%
FY2022	19	$564k	53%
FY2021	19	$660k	58%
FY2020	18	$400k	56%
FY2019	24	$518k	88%
FY2018	17	$497k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$741kEducation$660kArts & Culture$426kHealth$294kEnvironment$235kFood & Nutrition$233kCommunity Improvement$174kEmployment$136kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton	$155,000	3	3%
Black Scranton Project Inc	$143,283	3	26%
Geisinger Health	$130,000	3	0%
Marywood University	$110,000	2	0%
Indraloka Animal Sanctuary Inc	$100,000	2	4%
Waverly Community House Inc	$86,000	4	2%
United Way of Wyoming Valley	$82,000	5	0%
Upper Valley YMCA	$80,000	2	1%
Meals on Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc	$80,000	2	1%
Dinners for Kids Inc	$80,000	2	14%

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All grantees of The Willary Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton	$155,000	3	3%
Black Scranton Project Inc	$143,283	3	26%
Geisinger Health	$130,000	3	0%
Marywood University	$110,000	2	0%
Indraloka Animal Sanctuary Inc	$100,000	2	4%
Waverly Community House Inc	$86,000	4	2%
United Way of Wyoming Valley	$82,000	5	0%
Upper Valley YMCA	$80,000	2	1%
Meals on Wheels of Northeastern Pa Inc	$80,000	2	1%
Dinners for Kids Inc	$80,000	2	14%
The Food Dignity Project	$72,500	2	19%
University of Scranton	$57,500	3	0%
Misericordia University	$56,000	2	0%
Jumpstart Cart	$55,000	2	n/a
City of Scranton	$50,000	1	n/a
Scranton Public Library	$50,000	1	1%
Keystone College	$45,000	1	0%
Discovery Multiple Intelligences Preschool	$40,000	1	7%
Garden of Cedar	$40,000	1	n/a
Scranton Counseling Center	$38,801	1	0%
King's College	$34,555	2	0%
Valley in Motion	$30,000	2	12%
Northeast Regional Cancer Institute	$30,000	1	2%
Youth Arts Coalition	$30,000	1	n/a
Ronald McDonald House of Scranton Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Philharmonic Society of Nepa	$30,000	1	4%
The Catherine McAuley Center	$26,000	1	2%
Maternal & Family Health Services Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts	$25,000	1	0%
Telespond Senior Services Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Wilkes University	$25,000	1	0%
Casa of Wyoming Valley	$25,000	1	5%
Greater Wilkes-Barre Growth Partnership	$25,000	1	5%
The Trust for Public Land	$25,000	1	0%
The Institute	$25,000	1	2%
Lackawanna Valley Conservancy	$25,000	1	65%
Abington Area Joint Recreation Board	$25,000	1	13%
Allied Services Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Leadership Lackawanna	$25,000	1	12%
Lackawanna Historical Society	$25,000	1	5%
Great Valley Technology Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	15%
Kidspeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis	$24,900	1	0%
Scranton Shakespeare Festival	$18,000	3	7%
Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation	$17,000	1	6%
Spring Hills Foundation	$12,555	2	n/a
Wyoming Historical & Geological Society	$10,000	1	3%
Diamond City Partnership Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	2%
The Bronx River Arts Center Inc	$6,250	1	1%
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh	$6,250	1	0%
Historic Jayhawk Theatre Inc	$6,250	1	0%
The Blanket Incorporated	$6,250	1	1%
Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance Inc	$6,000	1	1%
For Good Pgh	$5,690	1	3%
Bay Area Lyme Foundation	$5,690	1	0%
Penn's Northeast Inc	$3,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

The Willary Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 51.

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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.

Moses Taylor Foundation IncPA51.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Willary Foundation

How much does The Willary Foundation give?: The Willary Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $548,990 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Willary Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Willary Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ($155k), Black Scranton Project Inc ($143k), Geisinger Health ($130k).
Does The Willary Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Willary Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Willary Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moses Taylor Foundation Inc, Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Hawk Family Foundation.
Where is The Willary Foundation based?: The Willary Foundation is based in PA.