Pennsylvania · 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $746k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,350
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $351,572
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Wayne County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $746k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $393k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $423k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $233k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $363k | 95% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $643k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $511k | 79% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| County of Wayne | $510,211 | 3 | n/a |
| Wayne Highlands Sd | $141,181 | 4 | n/a |
| Wallenpaupack Area Sd | $127,492 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Wayne Sd | $122,925 | 4 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wayne County Arts Alliance | $96,500 | 1 | 60% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $67,667 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas #4 Fire Company | $50,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Summit Church Inc | $49,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Wayne County Bar Association Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 70% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| County of Wayne | $510,211 | 3 | n/a |
| Wayne Highlands Sd | $141,181 | 4 | n/a |
| Wallenpaupack Area Sd | $127,492 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Wayne Sd | $122,925 | 4 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wayne County Arts Alliance | $96,500 | 1 | 60% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $67,667 | 2 | n/a |
| Texas #4 Fire Company | $50,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Summit Church Inc | $49,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Wayne County Bar Association Inc | $36,000 | 1 | 70% |
| Farm Arts Collective Inc | $34,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Forest City Regional School District | $32,328 | 4 | n/a |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $31,202 | 2 | 0% |
| Wayne Library Alliance | $26,561 | 3 | n/a |
| Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation Inc | $25,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Lake Wallenpaupack Watershed Management District | $22,650 | 1 | 10% |
| Workforce Wayne Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Wayne County Historical Society | $20,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Delaware Highlands Conservancy | $18,376 | 2 | 1% |
| The Cooperage Project | $14,500 | 2 | 1% |
| It Takes a Village | $14,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Wayne County Public Library Inc | $13,594 | 2 | 2% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Scranton Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wayne Memorial Health Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Path2freedom Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dorflinger Suydam Wildlife Sanctuary | $8,600 | 1 | 2% |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Harmony Presents | $7,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Rock Lake Post No 808 Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnson College | $6,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Hose Co No 1 | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Growing Older Together | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Salvation Army National Corp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Life | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northeastern Pennsylvania Educational Television Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wayne County Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: 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
How this is measured
About Wayne County Community Foundation
- How much does Wayne County Community Foundation give?
- Wayne County Community Foundation reported 25 itemized grants totaling $745,722, out of $1,877,336 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Wayne County Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Public Benefit (15%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Wayne County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: County of Wayne ($510k), Wayne Highlands Sd ($141k), Wallenpaupack Area Sd ($127k).
- Does Wayne County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wayne County Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Honesdale National Bank Foundation, Hickory Hill Foundation, Ppl Foundation.
- Where is Wayne County Community Foundation based?
- Wayne County Community Foundation is based in PA.
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