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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$352k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$611kPublic Benefit$518kPhilanthropy$498kHealth$398kFood & Nutrition$305kEducation$299kRecreation & Sports$157kEnvironment$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $745,722, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,877,336 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,131,614 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $256k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $352k
$9,350
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SUMMIT CHURCH INC$9,350
WALLENPAUPACK FREE METH CH$9,350
WAYNE LIBRARY ALLIANCE$9,159
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FOUND FOR HARMONY PRESENT: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 32 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
55

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

28%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    COUNTY OF WAYNE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $510k
  • ML
    MISC LOCAL CHARITIES 5000
    2× · 2019–2020 · $192k
  • BH
    BK HOPES PASS THROUGH FUND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $144k

Funded once

  • WC
    WAYNE COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $201k
  • HL
    HONESDALE LIONS POOL PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · $103k
  • WC
    Wayne County Arts Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $97k · 60% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
2
Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc

We inspire and engage diverse communities of people to protect, steward and enjoy the land and waterways of the wissahickon valley.

Environment
3
Westmoreland Conservancy

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…

Environment
4
Wayne Economic Development Corp

Promotion of economic development in and throughout wayne county, pa

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5
Waynesboro Hospital

Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
6
Wayne Economic Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
7
Washington County Agricultural Fair Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Weconservepa

Weconservepa helps people protect, wisely use, and enjoy what nature offers. we advocate for pro-conservation, life sustaining government policy. we assist individuals and organizations in conserving natural areas, farms, forests, parks,…

Environment
9
Heritage Conservancy Inc

We are a community based organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of significant open spaces, natural resources, and our historic heritage.

Arts & Culture
10
Wayne Memorial Health System Inc

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.

Health
11
Friends of Lackawanna

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.

Environment
12
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wayne Memorial Health Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
11/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNTY OF WAYNE: $510,211 · OtherCOUNTY OF WAYNEWAYNE COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEF: $201,212 · OtherWAYNE COUNTY EMERGENCY FOOD RELIEFMISC LOCAL CHARITIES 5000: $192,443 · OtherMISC LOCAL CHARITIES 5000BK HOPES PASS THROUGH FUND: $144,220 · OtherWAYNE HIGHLANDS SD: $141,181 · OtherWALLENPAUPACK AREA SD: $127,492 · OtherWESTERN WAYNE SD: $122,925 · Other+78 more: $1,658,397 · Other+78 moreWayne County Arts Alliance: $96,500 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $14,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · EnvironmentLAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: $22,650 · EnvironmentDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $18,376 · EnvironmentTexas #4 Fire Company: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHose Co No 1: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $31,202 · HealthWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · InternationalWORKFORCE WAYNE INC: $22,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,098,081Arts & Culture$150,000Environment$66,526Public Safety & Disaster$55,000Health$46,202International$25,000Community Improvement$22,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWayne County Arts Alliance: $96,500 over 1y, 60% of budgetTexas #4 Fire Company: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION INC: $36,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $34,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $31,202 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: $22,650 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetWORKFORCE WAYNE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWayne County Historical Society: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $18,376 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $14,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIT TAKES A VILLAGE: $14,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $13,594 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPATH2FREEDOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDORFLINGER SUYDAM WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $8,600 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFoundation for Harmony Presents: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJOHNSON COLLEGE: $6,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHose Co No 1: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

The Honesdale Nationa…Hickory Hill Foundati…Ppl FoundationThe John & Helen Vill…Abram M and Mabel B S…Pocono Mountains Vaca…Scranton Area Foundat…William E Chatlos Fou…The Grimm FoundationMoses Taylor Foundati…David Katz Foundation…Allone Charities
The Honesdale National Bank FoundationPA34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wayne County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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