The Honesdale National Bank Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832654176
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Honesdale, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5702533362
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,841
- Expenses
- $220,319
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Independent Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 129 filed grant rows totaling $215,359. The stated grant purposes included donation of funds based on volunteer time of employees of honesdale national bank, ladies auxiliary, and donation of funds on corporate match of honesdale national bank employee contributions, plus 73 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 98% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 98
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 16
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Foundation activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Individual grants for travel, study or similar purposes: Pass
- Grants outside qualifying charitable organization categories: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 9; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 7.72; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 16th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 129 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 16/100.