Innovative Impact Grants
Funding Amount
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Deadline
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Grant Type
Foundation
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Overview
Scranton Area Community Foundation
The Scranton Area Community Foundation makes grants to foster good ideas that have the potential to strengthen our community and enrich the lives of the people of Scranton, Lackawanna County, and Northeastern Pennsylvania. The Foundation responds to community needs and opportunities with grants in such diverse fields as health, education, arts, environment, human services, and civic affairs.
Organizations that serve the needs of residents in Lackawanna County are encouraged to keep the Foundation informed of their programs and services and to share their ideas about addressing community needs and opportunities.
Innovative Impact Grants
Innovative Impact Grants seek to provide resources for a nonprofit or collaboration of nonprofits to make a measurable improvement in the region. These competitive grants are made to those nonprofits that are committed to new, innovative, transformational, and/or collaborative efforts to: carry out an important goal or address a specific challenge; become more impactful, effective, and sustainable in their work; achieve a greater impact in the community they serve; meet their personal missions.
Eligibility
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What Scranton Area Foundation Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 154
- Total given
- $3.74M
- Median grant
- $11K
- Range
- $5,020–$338K
- By dollars: Pennsylvania >99%, New York <1%, Massachusetts <1%. Top recipient cities: Scranton, PA; Wilkes-Barre, PA; Philadelphia, PA.
- 87% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 42% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
United Neighborhood Centers of Nepa · Scranton, PA
To support general purposes, along with food assistance and nepa rise
$338K
Geisinger Health Foundation · Danville, PA
To provide funding for the janet weis children's hospital
$258K
Commission on Economic Opportunity · Pittston, PA
To support general purposes
$256K
Friends of the Poor · Scranton, PA
To support general purposes, along with food distribution
$226K
Bloomsburg Area YMCA · Bloomsburg, PA
To support general purposes
$95K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Nonprofits
- Education
- Arts
- Environment
- Human services
- Community development
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