Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN WATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countieslocalportfolio match
- Margaret Briggs Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Hawk Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 86% · 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 89% · 2021 98% · 2022 72% · 2023 59% · 2024 71% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $35k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION 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
SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2023 57% — 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
SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lackawanna Wayne and Pike Countieslocalportfolio matchPA · funds 47 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret Briggs Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hawk Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Willary Foundationlocalportfolio matchPA · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Scranton Area Foundation Incshared funderslocalPA · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 147 organizations near you
- Southcentral Workforce Investment Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Investment Boardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs for the Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schuylkill United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tri-County Workforce Investment Board Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Leadership Lackawanna · exempt
- Scranton Lack Industrial Bldg Co · exempt
- Slibco Utilities · exempt
- Lackawanna Industrial Fund Enterprises (Life) · exempt
- Scranton Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION 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 SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN WATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP.
- Who is the largest funder of SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP?
- AMERICAN WATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKILLS IN SCRANTON BUSINESS EDUCATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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