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Wesel Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $700 |
| ALLIED SERVICES | $700 |
| THE EVERHART MUSEUM | $700 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN | $700 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $700 |
| KEYSTONE COLLEGE | $700 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SCRANTON | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| PA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $600 |
| ALS UNITED MID ATLANTIC ORGANIZATION | $600 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON | $600 |
| UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY | $600 |
| GREATER SCRANTON YMCA | $600 |
| SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION | $600 |
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 (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +19%
- EMEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +23%
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $350 · revenue +29%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEPAone grant, 2017 · $350 · revenue +6%
- ELEYNON-ARCHBALD LIONS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
Schuylkill community action is a private, nonprofit corporationincorporated under the laws of the commonwealth of pennsylvania. theprimary purpose of schuylkill community action is to coordinate andfocus all available resources upon the…
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
The center provides comprehensive health and dental services for residents of scranton pa and other communities in lackawanna and surrounding counties.
Improving healthcare through education, advocacy, service, and physical well-being.
By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.
Provide emergency medical services.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county
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 the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.
The organization promotes business interests and economic and workforce development in the greater scranton area of lackawanna county.
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 Rotary Club of the Abingtons. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of the Abingtons ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEPA ↗
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: 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
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 Wesel 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.