Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Walter L Schautz Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $522k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2026
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 69
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 5
- Total assets, FY2026
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 14% of the organizations Walter L Schautz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 59 | $522k | 12% |
| FY2025 | 50 | $559k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $459k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $471k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $403k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $402k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $391k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $356k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Poor | $230,000 | 8 | 7% |
| St Francis of Assisi Kitchen | $170,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton | $141,500 | 8 | 1% |
| United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lackawanna Blind Association | $118,000 | 7 | 4% |
| University of Scranton | $39,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Lackawanna County | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| St Josephs Center | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association | $26,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania | $23,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Walter L Schautz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Eureka Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · The Ross Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Sabia Family Foundation · United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties
How this is measured
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About Walter L Schautz Foundation
- How much does Walter L Schautz Foundation give?
- Walter L Schautz Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $521,700 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 69 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Walter L Schautz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Walter L Schautz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Friends of the Poor ($230k), St Francis of Assisi Kitchen ($170k), Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ($142k).
- Does Walter L Schautz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Walter L Schautz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Walter L Schautz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, The Hawk Family Foundation, Moses Taylor Foundation Inc.
- Where is Walter L Schautz Foundation based?
- Walter L Schautz Foundation is based in PA.
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