Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,514 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ($1,140,774). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton Inc does
Mission
To provide a variety of social services to individuals and families residing in northeastern pennsylvania, including, but not limited to, counseling, provision of goods, and provision of housing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Catholic social services of the diocese of scranton, inc. Supports many programs including adult and family services, social services to homeless youth and their families, food and shelter for the homeless and support of the st. Vincent depaul kitchen and to support low income housing.
$7,029,667 spentof which $1,690,948 as grants$762,551 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,029,667.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $19M to $16M (−14%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 67% · 2019 66% · 2020 57% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% · 2024 68% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Joseph Mahoney
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $492k → $170k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 47% · 2019 38% · 2020 36% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$15.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$4.8M
- Department of Justice$1.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$397k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC?
- CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,892,514 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ($1,140,774). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $2,892,514 in grants to CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC?
- UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,140,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE DIOCESE OF SCRANTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing