· Public charity
United Way of Wyoming Valley
To impact lives - today, tomorrow, and forever
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $1,591,860 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,888,443 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,296,583 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $441k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $127,250 |
| GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA | $120,000 |
| COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $101,127 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $92,214 |
| WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $90,475 |
| LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC | $78,000 |
| CATHOLIC YOUTH CENTER | $77,837 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SCRANTON | $71,135 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER | $69,081 |
| CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES | $66,941 |
| MCGLYNN LEARNING CENTER | $65,000 |
| LUZERNE INTERMEDIATE UNIT #18 | $64,592 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY - SHINE | $56,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $49,597 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $45,300 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- TWThe Wright Center Medical Group6× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +285%
- WVWYOMING VALLEY AIDS COUNCIL4× · 2017–2020 · $2.0M · revenue +352%
- CCCARING COMMUNITIES FOR AIDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $1.5M · revenue +244%
Funded once
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NE PAone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +1%
- SBSTEP BY STEP INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +30%
- PMPOCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAYone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +6%
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.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The center for community action is the designated lead poverty agency for blair, bedford, fulton, and huntingdon counties in central pennsylvania and exists to provide a broad spectrum of services to the low income residents of the…
Foster social welfare by educating citizens.
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
Services to challenged individuals in Vocational,Residential, Home Based, and Community settings.
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
Wvia public media is a catalyst, convener and educator, using media, partnerships, powerful ideas and programs to improve lives and advance the best attributes of an enlightened society.
The organization is a leading organization in northwestern pennsylvania for quality early care and education. the organization provides direct service as well as training and planning leadership for a wide georaphic region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties and the most unlike its peers is Moses Taylor Foundation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 88 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 The Wright Center Medical Group ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY AIDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CARING COMMUNITIES FOR AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCGLYNN CENTER ↗
- Who funds WILKES-BARRE VOA ELDERLY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF NORTHEASTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MINING AND MECHANICAL INSTITUTE MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES-BARRE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING VALLEY MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BERWICK PA ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE TO OUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
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 · Allone Charities · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Tambur Family Foundation · Allone Foundation · Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Sordoni Family Foundation · Robert H Spitz 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 United Way of Wyoming Valley 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.