Schuylkill Area Community Foundation
Pottsville, PA · EIN 23-6422789. Reported 103 grants totalling $3,604,491 to 32 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Schuylkill Area Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a named trust (NTEE T90).
- How spread out its giving is. 32 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 89% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,686. Half of what it reported fell between $8,342 and $23,883; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $585,832. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various ENTITIES5000 | Pottsville, PA | $1,818,817 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Bloomsburg University Foundation Inc | Bloomsburg, PA | $237,209 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Schuylkill County Board of Commissioners | Pottsville, PA | $218,708 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ashland Public Library | Ashland, PA | $181,140 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Charles Baber Cemetery | Pottsville, PA | $132,806 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emmanuel Church of Chr | Nuremberg, PA | $124,374 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minersville Area Sd | Minersville, PA | $76,413 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lasting Legacy for Pottsville | Pottsville, PA | $64,432 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nuremberg-Weston Volunteer Fire Company | Sugarloaf, PA | $61,736 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Nicholas Ukrainian | Minersville, PA | $52,775 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $49,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schuylkill County Society for Pediatric Orthopedics | Pottsville, PA | $46,878 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center of Lebanon & Sch | Lebanon, PA | $46,878 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schuylkill Women in Crisis | Pottsville, PA | $46,298 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pottsville Area Emergency Medical Services Inc | Pottsville, PA | $43,752 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary High School | Pottsville, PA | $39,735 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Borough of Ashland | Ashland, PA | $33,749 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Charles Borromeo | Ashland, PA | $32,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Schuylkill Headwaters Association | Pottsville, PA | $31,021 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ringtown Area Library Assn | Ringtown, PA | $30,002 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Twin County Lions Club Foundation | Sheppton, PA | $29,612 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minersville Public Library | Minersville, PA | $29,347 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marian Catholic High School | Tamaqua, PA | $26,021 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| First United Methodist Church | Shamokin, PA | $25,013 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hillside Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Pottsville, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Church of St Patrick | Pottsville, PA | $24,668 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc | Schuykl Havn, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington Fire Company Community Ambulance Inc | Ashland, PA | $19,505 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gym Jam Therapeutics Inc | Pottsville, PA | $11,380 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shamokin Area High Alumni Ass | Lock Haven, PA | $10,361 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library Incorporated | Shamokin, PA | $10,361 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Historical Society of Schuylkill County | Pottsville, PA | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
28 of 32 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 11 of 32 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $955,967 | $10,682 |
| 2022 | 26 | $733,686 | $12,640 |
| 2023 | 27 | $907,634 | $12,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $1,007,204 | $12,417 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,686 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Schuylkill Area Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 216 South Centre Street, Pottsville, PA, 17901.
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