· Community foundation
Wayne County Community Foundation
The foundation invests in the community by growing its endowment, encouraging philanthropy & innovation, supporting charitable activities, and assessing & addressing community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $745,722 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,877,336 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,131,614 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 $10k13 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $352k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTY OF WAYNE | $351,572 |
| TEXAS 4 FIRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| WALLENPAUPACK AREA SD | $43,226 |
| WAYNE HIGHLANDS SD | $42,515 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $38,882 |
| WESTERN WAYNE SD | $38,659 |
| FRED HUTHINSON CANCER RESE | $25,000 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $19,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUND | $15,500 |
| FOREST CITY REGIONAL SD | $12,728 |
| DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERV | $10,188 |
| NEIGHBORWORKS OF NEPA | $10,000 |
| WALLENPAUPACK FREE METH CH | $9,350 |
| SUMMIT CHURCH INC | $9,350 |
| WAYNE LIBRARY ALLIANCE | $9,159 |
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 (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- COCOUNTY OF WAYNE3× · 2023–2025 · $510k
- MLMISC LOCAL CHARITIES 50002× · 2019–2020 · $192k
- BHBK HOPES PASS THROUGH FUND2× · 2019–2020 · $144k
Funded once
- WCWAYNE COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $201k
- HLHONESDALE LIONS POOL PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $103k
- WCWayne County Arts Allianceone grant, 2023 · $97k · 60% of their budget
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.
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…
Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
The westmoreland conservancy is an accredited non-profit land trust located in murrysville about 20 miles east of pittsburgh in westmoreland county. the organization was founded in 1991, and has always been run by community volunteers. the…
The corporation was formed to lessen the burdens of government and act in the public interest; to facilitate economic activities throughout wayne county, ny including the location and expansion of civic, industrial and commercial…
To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.
Wayne memorial health system strives to be the provider of first choice for community health care in wayne, pike, and susquehanna counties, and the greater carbondale and forest city regions of northeast pennsylvania.
The mission of the washington county agricultural fair is to promote and advance the interests of agriculture, horticulture, homemaking subjects and arts, sciences, and all kindred arts; to promote 4-h club work and the ffa activities and…
We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.
To provide policy guidance, technical assistance, and program oversight for the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county, and to assist in the economic development of southwestern pa region.
Friends of lackawanna is a pennsylvania non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the health and welfare of the residents of northeastern pennsylvania and educating individuals regarding the health and safety of the enviroment.
To preserve, steward, and connect people to the land in northern chester county pennsylvania. see additional information on schedule o.french & pickering is recognized as a leader in regional land conservation, the organization is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne Memorial Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas #4 Fire Company. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 99 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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds Texas #4 Fire Company ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds Wayne County Historical Society ↗
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 Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Hickory Hill Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The John & Helen Villaume Foundation · Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc · Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · William E Chatlos Foundation · The Grimm Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · David Katz Foundation Inc · Allone Charities
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 Wayne County Community 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.
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.