· Private foundation
Walter L Schautz Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2019–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k44 grants · $124k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY OF SCRANTON | $65,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY | $60,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $45,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SCRANTON | $25,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE POOR | $25,000 |
| LACKAWANNA BRANCH PA ASSOC FOR THE BLIND | $20,000 |
| UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF NEPA | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON | $12,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ST VLADIMIR'S CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WEINBERG FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY SCRANTON CAMPUS | $10,000 |
| GREATER SCRANTON YMCA | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–26, $273k) 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.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2026, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN8× · 2019–2026 · $170k · revenue +61%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton8× · 2019–2026 · $142k · revenue +63%
- LBLACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $118k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $8k
- CPCONVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INFANT CAREone grant, 2019 · $8k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Susquehanna physician services is a subsidiary of the exempt entity upmc suquehanna. our vision is to create an integrated community health system that delivers world class care. our values are to carefully place our patients and their…
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
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.
Human services center is a comprehensive community behavioral healthcare provider that provides mental health and development disability services to lawrence county residents.
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 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 113 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 FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPHS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC ↗
- Who funds AGENCY FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART ↗
- Who funds THE CENTURY CLUB OF SCRANTON ↗
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: 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
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 Walter L Schautz 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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