GrantmakersPennsylvania

Geisinger Health

Danville, PA · EIN 23-1995911. Reported 134 grants totalling $55.7M to 74 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

74organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$55.7Mgranted, 2021-2024
61%of grantees funded again the next year
29%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Geisinger Health, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E110).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 61% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,768 and $103,629; the smallest was $5,088 and the largest $7,100,004. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
23 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
14 grants
$250,000 Or More
25 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Caring Community Health CenterWilkes Barre, PA$16.0M332024
Geisinger Medical CenterDanville, PA$11.0M442024
Geisinger ClinicDanville, PA$10.7M442024
Geisinger Commonwealth School of MedicineDanville, PA$6,289,642442024
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical CenterDanville, PA$4,580,881442024
Geisinger System ServicesDanville, PA$1,421,032442024
Geisinger Community Health ServicesDanville, PA$1,000,050112021
Geisinger Jersey Shore HospitalDanville, PA$877,677332024
MarworthDanville, PA$435,212442024
Volunteers in MedicineWilkes Barre, PA$400,000442024
Geisinger-Lewistown HospitalDanville, PA$332,300442024
Geisinger Community Medical CenterDanville, PA$328,010332023
Geisinger-Bloomsburg HospitalDanville, PA$260,205442024
Friendship Fire Co 1Danville, PA$200,000442024
All Other Assistance CombinedDanville, PA$187,705222022
Geisinger Community Health ServicesDanville, PA$134,155112024
The Bloomsburg University Foundation IncBloomsburg, PA$120,000332024
Geisinger Medical Center MuncyDanville, PA$103,629112024
Geisinger Health PlanDanville, PA$97,577332024
Bloomsburg Fire Department IncBloomsburg, PA$75,000332023
Health Care ImprovementPhiladelphia, PA$75,000332023
Central Pennsylvania Food BankHarrisburg, PA$70,000222024
Community Medical CenterDanville, PA$69,483112024
Centre Volunteers in MedicineState College, PA$50,000222022
Rural Health Corporation of Northeastern PennsylvaniaWilkes Barre, PA$47,232112024
University of ScrantonScranton, PA$40,392222024
Countryside ConservancyLa Plume, PA$40,000332023
Greater Susquehanna Valley United WaySunbury, PA$33,526222024
Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical SocietyMechanicsburg, PA$30,000222024
Pennsylvania Medical Society Charitable TrustMechanicsburg, PA$30,000222022
Wrc IncScranton, PA$30,000222022
Geisinger Pharmacy LLCDanville, PA$28,887112024
Ronald Mcdonald House of Danville IncDanville, PA$28,481222024
Hazleton Integration Project IncHazleton, PA$27,500222023
Commission on Economic Opportunity of Luzerne CountyWilkes Barre, PA$25,000112021
East End Fire CompanyDanville, PA$25,000112022
Pennsylvania College of TechnologyWilliamsport, PA$25,000112023
Town of BloomsburgBloomsburg, PA$25,000112024
World of Children IncWest Hollywood, CA$25,000112024
The United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne CountiesScranton, PA$22,140222024
Friends of the PoorScranton, PA$20,000222023
Nicholas Wolff Foundation IncMillville, PA$18,000222022
Black Scranton ProjectScranton, PA$15,000112022
Loyalsock FoundationLaporte, PA$15,000112021
Natl Assoc for Advancement of Color NAACPScranton, PA$15,000112022
Shamokin Area School DistrictCoal Township, PA$15,000112024
Transitions of PaLewisburg, PA$15,000112021
Womens CenterBloomsburg, PA$15,000112021
Camps for Spiffy-Kyds IncPort Trevortn, PA$13,469112024
Oasis Community Recovery Club IncShamokin, PA$13,378222024
The Luzerne FoundationWilkes Barre, PA$13,000112024
Geisinger-Hm Joint Venture LLCDanville, PA$11,837112024
Columbia County Volunteers Inmedicine IncMifflinville, PA$11,465112022
United Way of Mifflin JuniataLewistown, PA$10,768112024
New Love CenterJersey Shore, PA$10,225112024
Amga Foundation IncAlexandria, VA$10,000112022
Bucktail Medical CenterRenovo, PA$10,000112024
Central Susquehanna Opportunities IncShamokin, PA$10,000112023
Girl Scouts in the Heart of PennsylvaniaCamp Hill, PA$10,000112021
Milton Area School DistrictMilton, PA$10,000112021
Misericordia UniversityDallas, PA$10,000112021
Pennsylvanias State System of Higher Education FoundationHarrisburg, PA$10,000112022
Philadelphia Visitor Center CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112024
Centre County United WayState College, PA$8,208112024
New Berlin Fire Company Number OneNew Berlin, PA$8,050112022
Columbia Montour Vo-TechBloomsburg, PA$7,580112024
Economic Development Council of Northeastern PennsylvaniaPittston, PA$7,000112024
West Shore Advanced Life Support Services IncDanville, PA$6,396112024
Keystone Health Information Exchange IncDanville, PA$6,000112022
Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation IncWilliamsport, PA$6,000112024
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical CenterHershey, PA$5,772112021
Albright Care ServicesFrederick, MD$5,500112021
Cancer Wellness Center of NepaForty Fort, PA$5,500112022
Lower Augusta Firefighters Relief AssociationSunbury, PA$5,389112021

32 of 74 (43%) 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 49 of 74 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.

Health Care
20 orgs
Education
7 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
4 orgs
Human Services
4 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202131$9,185,886$25,000
202234$14.2M$25,000
202328$13.8M$25,623
202441$18.5M$25,000

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

100% 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.

Pennsylvania
$55.6M
California
$25K
Virginia
$10K
Maryland
$6K

Down to the city

Danville, PA
$38.2M
Wilkes Barre, PA
$16.5M
Bloomsburg, PA
$243K
Scranton, PA
$143K
Philadelphia, PA
$85K
Harrisburg, PA
$80K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsCommunity Giving Foundation13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsFirst Community Foundation Partnership13 shared recipientsThe Luzerne Foundation11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. 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 Geisinger Health'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 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 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: 100 N Academy Ave Mc 49-70, Danville, PA, 17822.

EIN 23-1995911 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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