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GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP

GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,000 to it, the largest being Sordoni Family Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$385k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$246k
Net assets
$4.4M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Greater Wilkes-Barre Growth Partnership does

Mission

Operate exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, to carry out the 501(c)(3) purposes of, and/or otherwise support the greater wilkes-barre chamber of business & industry.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Greater Wilkes-Barre Growth Partnership, in conjunction with the greater wilkes-barre chamber of business & industry and its related entities, carries out the following programmatic activities:- carrying on independent activities and programs which support or benefit the specified publicly supported organization, including the making of payments to or for the use of, or the provision of services or facilities for individual members of the charitable class benefited by the specified publicly supported organizations;- sponsoring, supporting, administering, and overseeing programs and activities intended to promote the overall health and welfare of the greater wilkes-barre pennsylvania area, relieve poverty, combat community deterioration, and create jobs; - enhancing regional employment through the creation and implementation of workplace development and education programs and events for the benefit of the entire region;- assisting in the removal of blight, development, construction, ownership, and leasing of distressed real property in order to promote the overall health and welfare of the greater wilkes-barre pennsylvania area;- undertaking fundraising to support any of the…

    $231,248 spentof which $230,578 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $231,248.

02The 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 ($555k) Expenses 100 ($694k) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 91 ($505k) Expenses 70 ($486k) Net assets 90 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 113 ($628k) Expenses 69 ($481k) Net assets 104 ($2.2M)2020 Revenue 77 ($426k) Expenses 55 ($380k) Net assets 111 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 179 ($993k) Expenses 86 ($598k) Net assets 113 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 38 ($212k) Expenses 49 ($340k) Net assets 198 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 57 ($316k) Expenses 79 ($545k) Net assets 197 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 69 ($385k) Expenses 44 ($305k) Net assets 207 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (69)Expenses (44)Net assets (207)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $4.3M (+66%).

$2.2M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$4.3M
$4.2M
$4.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

49% of GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$139k
’17
$19k
’18
$147k
’19
$47k
’20
$394k
’21
−$127k
’22
−$229k
’23
$80k
’24
1.5
months of
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

Lindsay Griffin

President/CEO

Board chair

Carl Witkowski

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed3640424446515861
Joined·+5+9+11+11+15+8+7
No longer listed·17991014
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $35k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
3

Left out of every figure on this page: $48k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Geisinger Health). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP raised.

From the IRS filings of GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

61%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 71% — 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.

Where its funders are

GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

MN
PA
DE

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

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’19
’20
’21
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP

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

The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry98%The Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce94%Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce86%Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce84%Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce & Industry84%African American Chamber Foundation of Western Pa83%Allegheny Conference on Community Development83%Lancaster General Health83%

Nationally

The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry98%The Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce94%Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce Inc86%Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce86%Olathe Chamber of Commerce Inc86%Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City85%Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce84%Buffalo Niagara Partnership Inc84%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

44
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

40%

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

Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Gwbgp Gp LLC (Smllc) · disregarded
  • Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce · exempt
  • Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund · exempt
  • The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business & Industry · exempt
  • The Greater Wilkes-Barre Development Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: 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 GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP?
GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,000 to it, the largest being Sordoni Family Foundation ($150,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $246,000 in grants to GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP?
Sordoni Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER WILKES-BARRE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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