Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,957,152 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($5,487,792). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year. SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$12M
Recipients
239
Contributions on record
$19M
Donors on record
46
Payments out are 0.64x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countiesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Schwartz-Mack Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Walter L Schautz Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $297k → $1.8M.
5 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Geisinger Health Plan). These are real filings, and they are not money SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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.
Where its funders are
78% of SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION 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. $238k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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 44 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countiesshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 47 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Schwartz-Mack Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Walter L Schautz Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 33 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metroaction InclocalPA · funds 161 organizations near you
- Letort Trust Foundation 600001010portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allone Charitiesshared funderslocalPA · backs 91 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Robert y Moffat Charitable TrustlocalPA · funds 24 organizations near you
- Sabia Family FoundationlocalPA · funds 24 organizations near you
- United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valleyshared fundersPA · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Allied Services FoundationlocalPA · funds 7 organizations near you
- Lehigh Valley Community Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- The Frieder FoundationlocalPA · funds 8 organizations near you
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 SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- Appalachian Regional Commission$55k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC?
- SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,957,152 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($5,487,792). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year. SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $16,957,152 in grants to SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC?
- ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,487,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44funders 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