Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation
Dallas, PA · EIN 20-3150066. Reported 79 grants totalling $496,000 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Misericordia University | Dallas, PA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wyoming Valley Childrens Assoc | Fortyfort, PA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | Scranton, PA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wyoming Seminary Prep School | Forty Fort, PA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Forty Fort Park | Forty Fort, PA | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Penn State Wilkes Barre | Dallas, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Womens Resource Center | Scranton, PA | $17,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fork Over Love | Kingston, PA | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Blue Chip Farm Animal Refuge | Dallas, PA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dinner for Kids | Edwardsville, PA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Osterhout Free Library | Wilkes Barre, PA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Wyoming Valley | Wilkes Barre, PA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Back Mtn Food Pantry | Dallas, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blue Chip Farm Animal Rescue | Dallas, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA of Luzerne County | Wilkes Barre, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ceo Weinberg | Pittston, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cori's Place | Hanover Twp, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lands at Hillside Farm | Shavertown, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace | Harveys Lake, PA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coris Place | Hanover Twp, PA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Service Assoc | Wilkes Barre, PA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ne Philharmonic | Wilkes Barre, PA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Food Dignity | Forty Fort, PA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leadership Wilkes Barre | Wilkes Barre, PA | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| SPCA | Wilkes Barre, PA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA of Wyoming Valley | Palins, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fm Kirby Center | Wilkes Barre, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Geisinger Comm Scholl of Medicine | Scranton, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keystone Mission | Scranton, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lehman Sanctuary | Shavertown, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mtn Top Hose Co | Mountain Top, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Branch Land Trust | Dallas, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Ann's Basilica | Scranton, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wilkes Barre Preservation Society | Wilkes Barre, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mtn Top Hose Co #1 | Mountaintop, PA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pittston Library | Pittston, PA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Wilkes Barre, PA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Domestic Violence Svc Ctr | Wilkes Barre, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dress for Success | Wilkes Barre, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Service Assoc of Nepa | Wilkes Barre, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Serendipity Therapeutic Riding | Harveys Lake, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
20 of 41 (49%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Wyoming Valley Childrens Assoc
PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL &THERAPEUTIC SERVICESTO CHILDREN - Misericordia University
PROVIDE FUNDS TOBUILD A NEW SCIENCE BLDG - Forty Fort Park
INSTALL PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENTAT FORTY FORT PARK - Wyoming Seminary Prep School
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CHILDREN 1ST THROUGH 8TH GRADE - Blue Chip Farm Animal Refuge
GRANT TO INCREASE SPACEFOR MORE KENNELSAND WARHOUSE SPACE - Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR ADMITINGSTUDENTS TO THE MEDICAL SCHOOL
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $120,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $120,000 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 17 | $120,000 | $5,500 |
| 2024 | 23 | $136,000 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 62 42ND Street, Dallas, PA, 18612. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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