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COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY

COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,178,958 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,055,359). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$46M
Revenue FY2025
53
Funders on record
$17M
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
37/53 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%

Against its field

COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 367 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($26M) Net assets 100 ($9.4M)2018 Revenue 89 ($24M) Expenses 91 ($24M) Net assets 99 ($9.4M)2019 Revenue 115 ($31M) Expenses 116 ($30M) Net assets 104 ($9.8M)2020 Revenue 127 ($34M) Expenses 123 ($32M) Net assets 120 ($11M)2021 Revenue 154 ($41M) Expenses 151 ($40M) Net assets 136 ($13M)2022 Revenue 216 ($58M) Expenses 218 ($57M) Net assets 138 ($13M)2023 Revenue 240 ($64M) Expenses 236 ($62M) Net assets 158 ($15M)2024 Revenue 206 ($55M) Expenses 201 ($53M) Net assets 182 ($17M)2025 Revenue 173 ($46M) Expenses 173 ($45M) Net assets 190 ($18M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (173)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 51% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% · 2024 42% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$413k
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$37k
18
$352k
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$1.6M
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$1.5M
21
$231k
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$1.9M
23
$2.3M
24
$754k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $958k → $2.8M.

11 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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

COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

70% 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 COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY.

18%
largest funder
45%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 41% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 37% · 2022 49% · 2023 25%diversifying over time.

“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

44% of COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.

IL
NY
PA
NJ
MO
MD
DE
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.1M on record.

Federal$26.1M
grants $26.1Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$12.7M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$11.7M
  • Department of Labor$1.5M
  • Department of Agriculture$250k

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 COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY: 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 COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY?
COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,178,958 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,055,359). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $17,178,958 in grants to COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY?
Feeding America is the largest funder on record, with $3,055,359 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY 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 53funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing