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Wesel Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$700
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600
Median grant
1
States reached
$55k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$700
ALLIED SERVICES$700
THE EVERHART MUSEUM$700
THE SALVATION ARMY$700
KEYSTONE COLLEGE$700
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN$700
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SCRANTON$600
Individual grant recipient$600
PA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$600
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON$600
UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY$600
GREATER SCRANTON YMCA$600
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION$600
ALS UNITED MID ATLANTIC ORGANIZATION$600
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $600 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $500 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $350 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $350 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $300 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $250 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $250 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $250 → 13%GREATER SCRANTON YMCA: $250 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $600 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $600 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $300 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $300 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $300 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $300 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $250 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $250 → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45k · 18 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$45k
$950

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+29%

Still filing today

39%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • EM
    EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +23%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $350 · revenue +29%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEPA
    one grant, 2017 · $350 · revenue +6%
  • EL
    EYNON-ARCHBALD LIONS CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $250
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
Schuylkill Community Action

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…

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2
Susquehanna Heritage Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
3
Scranton Primary Health Care Center

The center provides comprehensive health and dental services for residents of scranton pa and other communities in lackawanna and surrounding counties.

Health
4
Allegheny County Medical Society

Improving healthcare through education, advocacy, service, and physical well-being.

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5
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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7
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

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.

Animals
8
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
9
Scranton-Lackawanna Resources Development Corporation

To provide affordable housing to people of lackawanna county

Human Services
10
Keystone Hospice

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…

Human Services
11
Philadelphia County Medical Society

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.

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12
Scranton Chamber of Commerce

The organization promotes business interests and economic and workforce development in the greater scranton area of lackawanna county.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Counties; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES: $4,100 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIESALLIED SERVICES: $3,950 · OtherALLIED SERVICESKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $3,750 · OtherKEYSTONE COLLEGEST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $3,750 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHENTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,750 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SCRANTON: $3,350 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SCRANTONPA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $3,100 · OtherPA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLINDIndividual grant recipient: $3,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCRANTON CHAPTER AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1,850 · Other+8 more: $4,550 · Other+8 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Scranton: $3,100 · Human ServicesYoung Men's C…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $2,900 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONA…SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $4,300 · PhilanthropySCRANTON …EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $3,750 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,250 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF LACKAWANNA COUNTY: $350 · Animals
Other$35,200Human Services$6,000Philanthropy$4,300Arts & Culture$3,750Health$1,250Animals$350

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 budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC: $4,300 over 9y, 0.0% of 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
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 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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