THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B82

Classification

1000

Street

34 S RIVER ST

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• THALENFELD CHARITABLE TR

  EIN 27-6379432

Mission and programs · 2025

• THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION IS A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SERVING ALL OF LUZERNE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. WE PROMOTE PHILANTHROPY AND SERVE AS STEWARDS OF THE RESOURCES OUR DONORS INVEST THROUGH US TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS THEY FUND. WE CREATE AND MANAGE FUNDS THROUGH PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT BY AREA DONORS THAT MEET EMERGING COMMUNITY NEEDS AND WILL CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS THROUGH FUTURE GENERATIONS. THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION'S MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE LIVES OF LUZERNE COUNTY RESIDENTS BY EVALUATING AND ADDRESSING COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING, PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE PHILANTHROPY, AND CONNECTING DONORS TO CAUSES THAT MATTER TO THEM. TO FULFILL OUR MISSION, WE... ENCOURAGE DONORS TO MAKE EFFECTIVE CHARITABLE DECISIONS THROUGH OUR DONOR-CENTRIC APPROACH TO PHILANTHROPY.GROW THE FOUNDATION'S UNRESTRICTED ASSETS TO PROVIDE FOR DIVERSE COMMUNITY NEEDS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF OUR DONORS, NONPROFITS, AND OUR COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. COLLABORATE TO SUPPORT CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO BUILD CAPACITY IN OUR NONPROFITS AND WORK CLOSELY WITH PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS, OTHER NONPROFITS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. SUPPORTING KEY COMMUNITY AREASTHROUGH AN INCLUSIVE STRATEGIC INITIATIVE, WE IDENTIFIED SEVEN SPECIFIC AREAS OF SUPPORT THAT OUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS FOCUSED ON TO MEET AND IMPROVE OUR MISSION OF ENSURING A HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY. THOSE SEVEN CRITICAL AREAS OF CONCENTRATION INCLUDE SOCIAL SERVICES, EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIPS, ARTS AND CULTURE, NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, YOUTH ISSUES, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH AND WELLNESS. WE ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION BY ASSISTING DONORS OF ALL SIZES TO CREATE AND ENDOW VARIOUS FUNDS. THESE FUND TYPES INCLUDE UNRESTRICTED, DONOR-ADVISED, FIELD OF INTEREST, DESIGNATED, SCHOLARSHIP, AND ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENTS. BY WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, COMPANIES, NONPROFITS, PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS, AND OTHER FOUNDATIONS, WE CONVEY INFORMATION ABOUT EXISTING FUNDS AND LOCAL NONPROFITS AND PROVIDE OPTIONS FOR DONORS. WE OFFER A FLEXIBLE FUND MODEL THAT CREATES CUSTOMIZED OPTIONS FOR EACH DONOR'S CHARITABLE INTENTIONS.SCHEDULE I LISTS GRANTS AWARDED DURING THE CURRENT YEAR. EDUCATION AND RESOURCESWE BELIEVE EDUCATION IS A KEY TO GROWING PHILANTHROPY IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND CONTINUED SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. WE PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS TO ASSIST CURRENT AND POTENTIAL DONORS IN UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING THE BENEFITS OF DONATIONS THROUGH OUR ORGANIZATION AND IN MATCHING THEIR INTERESTS TO THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE CONVEY THE LATEST AND MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TRENDS AND LEGISLATION TO INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS. THROUGH OUR COLLABORATION WITH THE NONPROFIT & COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER (NCAC) AND THE NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS (AFP), WE HAVE ACCESS TO AND PROVIDE DISSEMINATION OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND BEST PRACTICES IN THE INDUSTRY. ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE KNOWLEDGEABLE AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO ARE ABLE AND WILLING TO PROVIDE PHILANTHROPIC ASSISTANCE AND GUIDANCE TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR AREA. OUR STAFF'S TRAINING AND REGIONAL AND NATIONAL RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO ENSURE THE MOST HELPFUL INFORMATION IS AT HAND. CONVERSATIONS AND COLLABORATIONSA KEY ELEMENT TO ACCOMPLISHING THE MISSION OF THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION IS COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO BUILD CAPACITY IN OUR NONPROFITS AND WORK CLOSELY WITH PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS, OTHER NONPROFITS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. OUR FOUNDATION HAS A PROUD HISTORY OF FUNCTIONING AS A CATALYST TO CONVENE DIVERSE GROUPS IN IDENTIFYING AND MEETING COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH DIRECTED GIVING. OUR FOCUS ON ENCOURAGING DONORS TO MAKE EFFECTIVE CHARITABLE DECISIONS THROUGH OUR DONOR-CENTRIC APPROACH TO PHILANTHROPY, COMBINED WITH OUR ABILITY TO LISTEN TO THE NEEDS OF DONORS, NONPROFITS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS AND SUPPORTERS, LEVERAGES THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS FOR COMMUNITY BETTERMENT. HERE FOR GOOD WE ARE "HERE FOR GOOD." THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION, ESTABLISHED IN 1994, HELPS PEOPLE CREATE FUNDS TO DO GOOD FOR TODAY AND GOOD THAT LASTS FOR TOMORROW. THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION MANAGES OVER 400 FUNDS, OF WHICH NO TWO ARE EXACTLY ALIKE. THE FOUNDATION HAS DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN $179M IN GRANTS SINCE ITS INCEPTION TO MEET COMMUNITY CHALLENGES LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY. WITH OVER $60 MILLION IN ASSETS, THE FOUNDATION IS A POSITIVE FORCE FOR GOOD IN OUR COMMUNITIES. WE MAKE IT EASY FOR DONORS TO FIND INFORMATION ABOUT LOCAL NONPROFITS THAT ALIGN WITH CHARITABLE GIVING GOALS AND SUPPLY INFORMATION ABOUT STARTING THEIR FUND WITHIN THE FOUNDATION. WE ARE HERE FOR GOOD TO GROW THE FOUNDATION'S UNRESTRICTED ASSETS TO PROVIDE FOR DIVERSE COMMUNITY NEEDS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

  Expenses $4,598,402 · Grants $4,294,872

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $9,194,729

  Expenses

  $7,615,602

  Contributions

  $6,180,719

  Grants paid

  $4,294,872

• 2024

  Revenue

  $7,444,003

  Expenses

  $6,543,999

  Contributions

  $5,322,614

  Grants paid

  $4,167,265

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,103,977

  Expenses

  $6,208,645

  Contributions

  $5,228,010

  Grants paid

  $4,238,646

• 2022

  Revenue

  $20,972,961

  Expenses

  $5,708,646

  Contributions

  $19,422,420

  Grants paid

  $3,509,160

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,874,447

  Expenses

  $3,229,439

  Assets (EOY)

  $54,069,424

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,733,290

  Expenses

  $3,852,560

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,875,033

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,355,213

  Expenses

  $16,679,735

  Assets (EOY)

  $43,359,080

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $17,901,416

  Expenses

  $19,051,614

  Assets (EOY)

  $34,462,886

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,821,500

  Expenses

  $16,742,345

  Assets (EOY)

  $38,308,271

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $16,061,262

  Expenses

  $16,362,041

  Assets (EOY)

  $35,531,922

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,518,396

  Expenses

  $17,314,882

  Assets (EOY)

  $33,639,938

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,026,901

  Expenses

  $19,058,491

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,286,684

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $18,690,159

  Expenses

  $16,375,060

  Assets (EOY)

  $28,950,011

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $12,185,930

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,734,299

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• PATRIOTS COVE INC

  $390,000

  2025 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• CHRIST FELLOWSHIP CHURCH INC

  $312,000

  2025 · FAITH BASED

• LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  $310,806

  2023 · EDUCATIONAL

• PATRIOTS COVE INC

  $300,000

  2024 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• PATRIOTS COVE INC

  $297,000

  2023 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM

  $250,000

  2025 · HEALTH & WELLNESS

• GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION

  $220,000

  2024 · HEALTH & WELLNESS

• MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL

  $205,387

  2024 · EDUCATIONAL

• MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL

  $202,561

  2025 · EDUCATIONAL

• MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL

  $202,374

  2022 · SPORTS/LEISURE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION

  $129,000

  2023 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• ALLONE CHARITIES

  $127,778

  2025 · GENERAL USE OF THE ORGANIZATION

• PASCO L SCHIAVO MEMORIAL CHARITABLE FUND

  $124,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

• ALLONE CHARITIES

  $75,040

  2022 · GENERAL USE OF THE ORGANIZATION

• THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION

  $70,000

  2022 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION

  $60,000

  2023 · SOCIAL SERVICES

• THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION

  $44,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $40,000

  2023 · GROWTH

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $37,690

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

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