Moses Taylor

What Moses Taylor does

Moses Taylor Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation established in 2012 from the net proceeds of the sale of the Moses Taylor Health Care System to Community Health Systems, headquartered at 125 N. Washington Ave., Suite 205, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Foundation's mission is to improve the health of people, especially the most vulnerable, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, operating across an 11-county service area (Bradford, Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties).

The Foundation executes its mission exclusively through grantmaking and capacity-building services rather than a technology product. Its core offerings are organized into four focus areas: Health Care Access and Quality (primary care, oral health, mental health, workforce), Older Adult Health (age-friendly care, social isolation reduction), School-Based Health (school nurse support, student wellness), and Nonprofit Effectiveness (capacity building). Distribution channels include a YourCauseGrants online portal, quarterly responsive grant cycles (deadlines January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1), targeted Requests for Proposals for strategic initiatives, and an expedited emergency grant track. The Foundation has no proprietary software products and uses standard nonprofit technology infrastructure only.

The Foundation is funded by an investment endowment created at inception and does not charge for its services. Since 2012, it has approved over 575 grants totaling more than $42 million, with first-decade grantmaking of $26M+ and an additional $17M distributed during the 2019-2023 strategic plan period. The Foundation operates with a small professional staff of approximately 5-7 members led by President and CEO Danielle Breslin (appointed March 2022), overseen by a community-leader Board of Directors chaired by Maria Marsili. Revenue, partnerships, hiring, and governance changes since 2021 include new leadership, an expanded grants team (Will Craven, November 2025), and growing engagement in mental/behavioral health, workforce development, and school-based health program design.

Name

Moses Taylor

Legal name

Moses Taylor Foundation

Website

https://mosestaylorfoundation.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Moses Taylor Foundation is a private nonprofit foundation established in 2012 from the sale of Moses Taylor Health Care System, granting funds across four focus areas - Health Care Access and Quality, Older Adult Health, School-Based Health, and Nonprofit Effectiveness - to improve community health across an 11-county region of Northeastern Pennsylvania from its Scranton headquarters.

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Product category

Philanthropic Foundation Grantmaking

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB), Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

Keywords

• Philanthropic grantmaking
• Community health grants
• Nonprofit capacity building
• School-based health grants
• Regional foundation grants

Headquarters

HQ city

Scranton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Grantmaking from Foundation Endowment: Moses Taylor Foundation is a private foundation created in 2012 from the net proceeds of the sale of Moses Taylor Health Care System. The Foundation distributes grants to nonprofit organizations to improve health outcomes in Northeastern Pennsylvania, funded through its investment endowment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Moses Taylor Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation that distributes grants to nonprofit organizations across Northeastern Pennsylvania to improve community health outcomes. Its core offering is grantmaking across four focus areas — Health Care Access and Quality, Older Adult Health, School-Based Health, and Nonprofit Effectiveness — delivered through quarterly responsive grant cycles, strategic initiative RFPs, emergency grants, and capacity-building support such as Catchafire access. The Foundation does not sell products or charge fees; its funding flows from an investment endowment created at the 2012 sale of Moses Taylor Health Care System.

Product overview

Moses Taylor Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation that offers a portfolio of grantmaking programs across four focus areas: Health Care Access and Quality, Older Adult Health, School-Based Health, and Nonprofit Effectiveness. The Foundation does not offer a software product but rather provides grant funding through an online grant portal. The core offering consists of responsive grantmaking opportunities, strategic initiative funding, and capacity building support for nonprofits serving Northeastern Pennsylvania's 11-county region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Health Care Access and Quality Grantmaking

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 575 grants totaling more than $42 million invested since 2012
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered supporting, core and strategic.

• Lackawanna County System of CaresupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partner in mental health awareness campaigns and community wellness initiatives in Lackawanna County
• Listen for Good / Fund for Shared InsightsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018National initiative bringing feedback loop practices to NEPA nonprofits; Moses Taylor Foundation serves as local sponsor for five Pennsylvania Listen for Good grantees
• Kittleman & AssociatescoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerNational executive search firm engaged by the Foundation's Board of Directors to lead the executive search for President and CEO following leadership transition in 2021
• Scranton Area Community FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-host of the NEPA Learning Conference, an annual nonprofit professional development event. Partnership provides capacity building opportunities for nonprofits across the region
• United Way of Lackawanna, Wayne & PikecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partner on the Age Friendly Lackawanna Initiative to reduce older adult isolation in Lackawanna County; also partner on workforce development initiatives
• The Center for School Health Innovation & QualitystrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerContracted in 2022 to examine school nurse staffing and funding challenges in NEPA; research explored models to address staffing pressures
• Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19 (NEIU 19)strategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner for the Travel School Nurse Pilot Program, providing multiple districts with access to qualified substitute school nurses
• CatchafiresupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnnual contract providing local nonprofits with free access to Catchafire's capacity building services including skilled volunteering and project management support
• NEPA Workforce Funder CollaborativestrategicStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional collaborative of funders working to strengthen workforce pipelines and advance economic mobility in Northeastern Pennsylvania
• The Institute for Public Policy & Economic DevelopmentsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner providing evaluation assistance, COVID-19 impact surveys, and ongoing data support for Foundation strategic planning
• Families United NetworksupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPennsylvania-based provider of private foster care and voluntary child welfare agency; serves as fiscal sponsor for Peer Help United Network (PHUN)

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The largest U.S. health-focused philanthropy, with overlapping priorities in healthcare access, mental health, and older adult health. Relevant as an upstream influence and funding-ecosystem reference for regional health foundations like Moses Taylor.
• The Pew Charitable Trusts: Pennsylvania-headquartered large-scale foundation operating well beyond NEPA but with comparable evidence-based, evaluation-driven grantmaking and healthcare/community impact portfolios. Useful as a benchmark for endowment scale and rigor.

Regional players

• NEPA Workforce Funder Collaborative: Regional collaborative of funders (of which Moses Taylor is a member) focused on workforce pipeline and economic mobility in NEPA. Comparable in grantmaking philosophy and regional focus, though it operates as a pooled-funder vehicle rather than a standalone endowment.
• Erie Community Foundation: Pennsylvania-based regional community foundation serving a different geography than Moses Taylor (northwest PA vs. NEPA), but highly comparable in operating model, endowment-backed grantmaking, and use of strategic initiatives alongside responsive cycles.

Direct peers

• PinnacleHealth Foundation: Central Pennsylvania hospital-conversion foundation focused on community health, structurally and historically analogous to Moses Taylor Foundation (a hospital sale establishing an endowed health-focused grantmaker).
• The Winston-Salem Foundation: Regional community grantmaking foundation where former Moses Taylor CEO LaTida Smith became President. Comparable in structure and operating model — a regional foundation aggregating capital for community health and welfare grantmaking.
• First Hospital Foundation: Pennsylvania-based private foundation dedicated to improving community health, with a regional grantmaking model that closely mirrors Moses Taylor's healthcare-focused four-pillar approach.
• Highmark Foundation: Regional health-focused foundation affiliated with a Pennsylvania insurer, with grants supporting healthcare access, school-based health, and behavioral health — a near-identical thematic portfolio to Moses Taylor's, serving overlapping Pennsylvania grantees.
• Scranton Area Community Foundation: Scranton-based community foundation serving the same Northeastern Pennsylvania region as Moses Taylor Foundation. They co-host the NEPA Learning Conference for nonprofit capacity building, indicating overlapping geographic scope, grantee base, and programmatic intent.
• Blue Ribbon Foundation of Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Health-focused regional foundation from a payer/insurer origin, comparable in size and geographic mandate to Moses Taylor Foundation. Christine Marcos (Moses Taylor's Senior Program Officer) previously served at the Blue Ribbon Foundation, signaling direct overlap in grantee networks and program design.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MosesTaylorFoundation

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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