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Wesel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$700
Organizations funded a year
12 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$55k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Wesel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$8k8%
FY202412$7k8%
FY202312$4k0%
FY202213$4k0%
FY202114$4k0%
FY202013$4k8%
FY201913$4k0%
FY201816$5k6%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$14kPhilanthropy$8kHealth$6kArts & Culture$4kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$4kYouth Development$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties$4,10090%
Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art$3,75090%
Keystone College$3,75090%
St Francis of Assisi Kitchen$3,75090%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton$3,10090%
Ronald McDonald House of Scranton Inc$2,90080%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,25040%
Rotary Club of the Abingtons$40020%
Humane Society of Lackawanna County$35010%
United Cerebral Palsy of Nepa$3501n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wesel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties: $4,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEverhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art: $3,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKeystone College: $3,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis of Assisi Kitchen: $3,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $3,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Scranton Inc: $2,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of the Abingtons: $400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of Lackawanna County: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Walter L Schautz Foun…The Hawk Family Found…The Ross Family Found…Moses Taylor Foundati…Scranton Area Foundat…Eureka FoundationRosenberg Charitable …Margaret Briggs Found…Robert H Spitz Founda…Allone CharitiesIrving and Edythe Gro…Oppenheim Foundation
Walter L Schautz FoundationPA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walter L Schautz Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · The Ross Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Eureka Foundation · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Allone Charities · Irving and Edythe Grossman Foundation · Oppenheim Foundation

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.

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About Wesel Foundation

How much does Wesel Foundation give?
Wesel Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wesel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (13%).
Who are Wesel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties ($4k), Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art ($4k), Keystone College ($4k).
Does Wesel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wesel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wesel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walter L Schautz Foundation, The Hawk Family Foundation, The Ross Family Foundation.
Where is Wesel Foundation based?
Wesel Foundation is based in PA.

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 23 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-PF 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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