· Private foundation
A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LACAWAC SANCTUARY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| BOWMANSTOWNPALMERTON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION | $7,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| VALOR HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUT TROOP 209 | $5,000 |
| PALMERTON SUMMER RECREATION PR | $4,000 |
| LAKE PLACID ART LEAGUE | $3,750 |
| FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MAUCH CHUNK MUSEUM & CULTURAL | $2,700 |
| RAISING THE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| PALMERTON HOLIDAY LIGHTING COM | $2,500 |
| OPERATIONS PATRIOT FOB | $2,500 |
| PALMERTON MEM PARK ASSN | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
69 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PKPeaceful Knights Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
- PAPalmerton Area Historical Society8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +153%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- PCPALMERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2021 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provision of ambulance service and emergency first aid care
Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…
Provide quality emergency medical service and ambulance service to the pittston township community in luzerne county pennsylvania
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Provide emergency ambulance services
The foundation of the pennsylvania medical society charitable trust is dedicated to advancing the culture of philanthropy and supporting excellence across programs and services provided by the foundation of the pennsylvania medical society.
The council is a key component of the emergency medical services system in central pennsylvania, serving as a vital link between local ems agencies and the pennsylvania department of health. as a independent non-profit corporation and the…
Improving healthcare through education, advocacy, service, and physical well-being.
The trust is dedicated to protecting the natural heritage of the pocono mountains region, in northeastern pennsylvaina, by conserving land and inspiring people to care for, enjoy, and explore their natural world.
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
Provide emergency medical services.
Public library services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mauch Chunk Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PALMERTON MEMORIAL PARK ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Knights Inc ↗
- Who funds LEHIGHTON AREA MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TURN TO US ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELEGANCE AT HERSHEY ↗
- Who funds Palmerton Area Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAUCH CHUNK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGHTON BOYS AND GIRLS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERING MERCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation · Allone Charities · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- No Longer Fatherless Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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