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Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation

The foundation's mission is to provide funds for the enchancement of the community

$287k
Granted FY2018
14
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

95% of Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Luzerne Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $287k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
14
’18
3
’19
3
’20
3
’21
3
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$5.5MEducation$1.3MHealth$166kArts & Culture$15kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2018 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS SERVICE CENTER$40,000
MATERNAL AND FAMILY HEALTHCARE$35,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$35,000
WYOMING VALLEY CHILDRENS ASSOCIATION$30,000
MARYWOOD UNIVERSITY$27,500
GEISINGER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$27,500
FM KIRBY CENTER$15,000
WILKES BARRE FAMILY YMCA$15,000
GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOC OF BLIND$10,500
MISERCORDIA UNIVERSITY$10,250
LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,250
WILKES UNIVERSITY$10,250
KING'S COLLEGE$10,250
VICTIM RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOC OF BLIND: $11k → 15%VICTIM RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 15%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • MU
    Marywood University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $228k · revenue +20%
  • KC
    KING'S COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $220k · revenue +1%
  • WU
    WILKES UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $201k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +83%
  • MF
    MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +63%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +83%
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
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center

Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community service.

Health
2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
8
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
9
Lycoming College

The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.

Education
10
Pennsylvania Medical Society

The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…

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11
Upmc Williamsport

UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…

Health
12
Penn State Health

Penn state health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and equitable care; educates and trains (continued…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is King's College; the most unlike its peers is Volunteers in Medicine. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $5,507,692 · EducationTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATIONMarywood University: $227,500 · EducationKING'S COLLEGE: $220,250 · Education+3 more: $268,500 · EducationGEISINGER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $264,000 · OtherGEISINGER…MISERCORDIA COLLEGE: $160,000 · OtherMISERCORD…LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $120,000 · OtherLUZERNE C…LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $40,250 · OtherLUZERNE C…+2 more: $25,000 · OtherCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $40,000 · HealthMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $35,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $35,000 · HealthWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · HealthGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $10,500 · Human ServicesVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$6,223,942Other$609,250Health$140,000Human Services$20,500Arts & Culture$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $5,507,692 over 1y, 26% of budgetMarywood University: $227,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $220,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $200,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $40,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $35,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGEISINGER COMMONWEALTH SCH OF MED: $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFox Valley Family YMCA Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WILKES BARRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND D/B/A NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $10,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Moses Taylor Foundati…The Tambur Family Fou…Allone CharitiesWilliam G McGowan Cha…The Blackhorse Founda…Allone FoundationThe Luzerne FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…Joseph B and Virginia…United Way of Wyoming…Benco Family Foundati…Metz Family Foundatio…
Moses Taylor Foundation IncPA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · Allone Charities · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Blackhorse Foundation · Allone Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · United Way of Wyoming Valley · Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation · Metz Family 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 Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyoming Valley Health & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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