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William E Chatlos Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COOPERAGE PROJECT | $160,000 |
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY | $110,000 |
| WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $98,233 |
| IT TAKES A VILLAGE | $55,000 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE | $40,000 |
| MY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT | $40,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $39,000 |
| BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT | $32,695 |
| CLEAN WATER MATTERS | $25,000 |
| MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| WAYNE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| TROOP R CAMP CADET | $25,000 |
| HOSE CO NO 1 HONESDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT | $24,000 |
| STEEL CITY AMBASSADORS | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- LSLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $640k · revenue +103% · 32% of their budget
- TCTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +235% · 35% of their budget
- MBMY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT5× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- DLDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
- FHFair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Incone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -60% · 65% of their budget
- MIMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -16%
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.
Provide Firefighting and ambulance service to Wesleville Borough
Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services
All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.
Promote fire safety and provide fire protection.
Fire & Rescue Company
Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.
Provide trained personnel and equipment to protect life and property in wayne township and the surrounding area against the ravages of fire
Fivepointville fire companys mission is to protect lives and properties in the event of fire and other emergencies occuring in the brecknock township and surrounding areas
Volunteer fire company providing fire and rescue services to mohnton pa and the surrounding area.
The primary mission of the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company is to provide firefighting and rescue services to the community. It also promotes safety awareness, provides educational programs, actively recruits volunteers and…
The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.
The mission of the Chippewa Township VFD is to provide fire services for Chippewa Township, PA, a township with a population of approximately 9,000 people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protection Engine Company No 3 and the most unlike its peers is Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 52 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 LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPERAGE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IT TAKES A VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Hose Co No 1 ↗
- Who funds Fair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2 ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FIRE CO OF BEACH LAKE ↗
- Who funds TROOP R CAMP CADET ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THIRSTY LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKING STRIDES FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TUSTEN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WELCOME LAKE FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas #4 Fire Company ↗
- Who funds PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3 ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNICO NATIONAL - UNICO SCRANTON CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Sewickley Creek Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds SISTER STANS CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT DOMINICS ACADEMY ↗
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: The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Wayne County Community Foundation · The Grimm Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Robert E and Leila Stegner Family Foundation · Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc · Hickory Hill Foundation · Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau Inc · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · John H Stegner and Helen a Stegner Charitable · The Van Horn Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc
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 William E Chatlos 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.
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