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The Willary Foundation at a glance

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The Willary Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$549k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MYCIL CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$25,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$25,000
ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION$25,000
PENN STATE PHILANTHROPIC FUND$25,000
UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS$25,000
MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $25k → 15%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $26k → 13%TELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25k → 13%THE INSTITUTE: $25k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $100k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $50k → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $5k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $30k → 13%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

NY
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
KS
DC
AL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
51

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+12%

Still filing today

53%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton
    3× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +63%
  • GH
    GEISINGER HEALTH
    3× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +133%
  • MU
    Marywood University
    2× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • EW
    EOTC WORKS
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • LJ
    LACKAWANNA JUNIOR COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF SCRANTON
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
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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2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
3
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
6
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
7
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
8
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
9
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
10
Lehigh Valley Health Network

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.

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11
Lancaster General Health Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scranton Area Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC: $143,283 · OtherBLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INCTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $132,085 · OtherUNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $125,000 · OtherWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 · Other+55 more: $1,897,291 · Other+55 moreMarywood University: $110,000 · EducationMarywood …University of Scranton: $57,500 · EducationUniversit…MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $56,000 · EducationMISERICOR…DISCOVERY MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PRESCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationDISCOVERY…KING'S COLLEGE: $34,555 · EducationKING'S CO…WILKES UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationWILKES UN…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $155,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $26,000 · Human ServicesTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Human ServicesGEISINGER HEALTH: $130,000 · HealthSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER: $38,801 · HealthNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $30,000 · HealthMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthKIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS: $24,900 · HealthYOUTH ARTS COALITION: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $18,000 · Arts & CulturePENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Arts & CultureSPRING HILLS FOUNDATION: $12,555 · Arts & CultureWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONX RIVER ARTS CENTER INC: $6,250 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC JAYHAWK THEATRE INC: $6,250 · Arts & CultureTHE BLANKET INCORPORATED: $6,250 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $82,000 · PhilanthropySCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION: $5,690 · PhilanthropyWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $86,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 · Community ImprovementDIAMOND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFOR GOOD PGH: $5,690 · Community Improvement+1 more: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,587,659Education$323,055Human Services$286,000Health$273,701Arts & Culture$161,305Philanthropy$137,690Community Improvement$129,690

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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $155,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC: $143,283 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $132,085 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMarywood University: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDRALOKA ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $86,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $82,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER VALLEY YMCA: $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE FOOD DIGNITY PROJECT: $72,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $56,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES PRESCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSCRANTON COUNSELING CENTER: $38,801 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $34,555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY IN MOTION: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNORTHEAST REGIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $26,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTELESPOND SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLACKAWANNA VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetABINGTON AREA JOINT RECREATION BOARD: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP LACKAWANNA: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLACKAWANNA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGREAT VALLEY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetKIDSPEACE NATIONAL CENTERS FOR KIDS IN CRISIS: $24,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $18,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetWyoming Historical & Geological Society: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDIAMOND CITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BRONX RIVER ARTS CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC JAYHAWK THEATRE INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 VALLEY IN MOTION ↗

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 Foundati…Scranton Area Foundat…The Hawk Family Found…Margaret Briggs Found…Sordoni Family Founda…Robert H Spitz Founda…Ppl FoundationAllone FoundationAllone CharitiesWilliam G McGowan Cha…The Harry and Jeanett…The Tambur Family Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Willary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Willary Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 97 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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