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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 $17,398,372 to it, the largest being Feeding America ($3,055,359). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Commission on Economic Opportunity of Luzerne County does
Mission
The mission of the organization to promote self-sufficiency among low-income and vulnerable populations by confronting the causes and reducing the effects of poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing and emergency services: offers housing stability services to low income families with children, veterans, and vulnerable senior citizens and disabled with fixed incomes. Provides resolutions to short term, emergency housing needs to prevent homelessness. Provides guidance and assistance for other short term financial emergencies that allow families with children, senior citizens, the disabled, and veterans. Program funding includes federal, state and local sources. Housing supports including rental and relocation assistance, emergency shelter, foreclosure prevention was provided to 4,257 families with children, senior citizens, disabled and veterans. Services enable families to attain or maintain their stable housing.
$4,623,280 spentof which $24,373,723 as grants10% of program spendingWeatherization and energy assistance: promotes residential energy conservation and health and safety; addresses short-term energy crises for low-income families, senior citizens, those with disabilities, and veterans faced with broken heating equipment, lack of fuel, or utility service termination. Program funding sources include federal, state, as well as various utility companies and private donors. 7,605 households qualified for emergency heating assistance though the liheap crisis program; 17,087 low income families with children, senior citizens, the disabled and veterans enrolled in utility customer assistance programs; 725 families received weatherization services.
$6,410,336 spent15% of program spendingFood bank/nutrition services: distributes donated and purchased food product to a network of 370 food distribution partners. Promotes healthy nutrition among low income and vulnerable populations in our 4 county regions, especially children and senior citizens. Program funding includes federal, state and private donors; including food companies, businesses, foundations, and individuals. The food bank received 6,779,610 lbs. Of donated food product valued at $11,551,062; supplemental food boxes provided to approx. 1,777 seniors monthly; agency food pantries provided 29,796 units of service to 1,983 unique families; thanksgiving distribution provided to 6,889 families; nutrition education sessions reached 7,406 school-aged children, 2,449 adults and elderly.
$26,004,025 spent59% of program spendingDonations and grants and housing
$7,020,310 spent16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,057,951.
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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $27M (+30%).
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 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 (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jennifer Warabak
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
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.
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.
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 54% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.
Against its field
COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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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 $17,398,372 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 $17,398,372 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing