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William E Chatlos Foundation at a glance

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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.

$877k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$968kEnvironment$660kPublic Safety & Disaster$548kPhilanthropy$385kHealth$372kReligion$313kEducation$235kFood & Nutrition$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $473k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WAYNE HIGHLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
TROOP R CAMP CADET$25,000
MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
HOSE CO NO 1 HONESDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT$24,000
STEEL CITY AMBASSADORS$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $62k → 12%RED DOOR PLACE INC: $7k → 17%SISTER STANS CHILDREN: $20k → 14%MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 5%BLACKBURN CENTER: $20k → 10%KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $30k → 12%FEEDING THE SPIRIT: $10k → 10%BLACKBURN CENTER: $5k → 10%WAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $10k → 13%WAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $10k → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC: $10k → 13%WAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $8k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 30 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$3.1M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
-16%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • LS
    LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $640k · revenue +103% · 32% of their budget
  • TC
    THE COOPERAGE PROJECT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $580k · revenue +235% · 35% of their budget
  • MB
    MY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT
    5× · 2019–2024 · $205k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • FH
    Fair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -60% · 65% of their budget
  • DL
    DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • MS
    MAKING STRIDES FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -12% · 32% 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
Wesleyville Hose Company No 1

Provide Firefighting and ambulance service to Wesleville Borough

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2
Duncannon Fire Company No 1 Inc

Provide Fire Prevention & Protection Services

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3
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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4
Hartsville Volunteer Fire Co 1

Promote fire safety and provide fire protection.

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5
Upper Saucon Vol Fire Dept No 1

Fire & Rescue Company

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Seelyville Fire Company

Provides volunteer fire protection and rescue services to the seelyville, pa and surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Summit Station Fire Company

Provide trained personnel and equipment to protect life and property in wayne township and the surrounding area against the ravages of fire

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Fivepointville Fire Company

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

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Friendship Fire Co No 2 of Mohnton Pennsylvania

Volunteer fire company providing fire and rescue services to mohnton pa and the surrounding area.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department

The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Chippewa Township Vfd

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protection Engine Company No 3; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 52 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC: $152,695 · OtherBLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INCBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $120,000 · OtherBETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCHCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $114,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAELIT TAKES A VILLAGE: $105,000 · OtherIT TAKES A VILLAGEST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $100,000 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHENSTEEL CITY AMBASSADORS: $85,000 · OtherSTEEL CITY AMBASSADORSDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATIONUNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF: $72,000 · OtherDAMASCUS TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE: $58,000 · OtherPROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3: $48,000 · OtherMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherFair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $75,000 · OtherFair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center IncTROOP R CAMP CADET: $55,000 · Other+14 more: $247,000 · Other+14 moreTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $580,382 · Arts & CultureTHE COOPERAGE PROJE…FARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFARM ARTS COLLECTIV…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $639,685 · EnvironmentLACAWAC SANCTUARY F…+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentHose Co No 1: $88,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHose Co No…Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2: $72,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAlert Hook…VOLUNTEER FIRE CO OF BEACH LAKE: $68,000 · Public Safety & DisasterVOLUNTEER …THIRSTY LANDS INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHIRSTY LA…Texas #4 Fire Company: $48,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTexas #4 F…WELCOME LAKE FIRE & RESCUE INC: $48,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWELCOME LA…MY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT: $205,000 · HealthMY BREAST…MAKING STRIDES FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthMAKING ST…TUSTEN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE: $48,000 · HealthTUSTEN VO…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthNORTHWELL…WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $275,233 · PhilanthropyUNICO NATIONAL - UNICO SCRANTON CHAPTER: $20,000 · PhilanthropyKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $92,000 · Human ServicesWAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $28,116 · Human ServicesBLACKBURN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSISTER STANS CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFEEDING THE SPIRIT: $10,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$1,356,695Arts & Culture$660,382Environment$659,685Public Safety & Disaster$374,000Health$328,000Philanthropy$295,233Human Services$217,116

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 budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $639,685 over 6y, 32% of budgetTHE COOPERAGE PROJECT: $580,382 over 5y, 35% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $275,233 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetMY BREAST CANCER SUPPORT: $205,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetBLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC: $152,695 over 4y, 11% of budgetIT TAKES A VILLAGE: $105,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetST FRANCIS OF ASSISI KITCHEN: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $92,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHose Co No 1: $88,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetFair Hill Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetFARM ARTS COLLECTIVE INC: $75,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetAlert Hook & Ladder Company No 2: $72,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetVOLUNTEER FIRE CO OF BEACH LAKE: $68,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetTROOP R CAMP CADET: $55,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetMAKING STRIDES FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHIRSTY LANDS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas #4 Fire Company: $48,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTUSTEN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE: $48,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWELCOME LAKE FIRE & RESCUE INC: $48,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetPROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3: $48,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWAYNE COUNTY CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS BUREAU: $28,116 over 3y, 40% of budgetBLACKBURN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHREEFOLD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSAINT DOMINICS ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNICO NATIONAL - UNICO SCRANTON CHAPTER: $20,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSISTER STANS CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSewickley Creek Watershed Association: $20,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetFOODSHED CAPITAL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHonesdale Communities That Care Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFEEDING THE SPIRIT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED DOOR PLACE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHONESDALE ROOTS & RHYTHM MUSIC &: $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% 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.

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…Wayne County Communit…The Grimm FoundationScranton Area Foundat…Robert E and Leila St…Abram M and Mabel B S…Hickory Hill Foundati…Pocono Mountains Vaca…Tuscarora Wayne Mutua…John H Stegner and He…The Van Horn Foundati…Moses Taylor Foundati…
The Honesdale National Bank FoundationPA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 William E Chatlos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William E Chatlos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    15report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to William E Chatlos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to William E Chatlos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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