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A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation at a glance

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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.

$119k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$163kRecreation & Sports$77kArts & Culture$77kHuman Services$54kEducation$44kEnvironment$36kHealth$32kCrime & Legal$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$1,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACAWAC SANCTUARY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$11,000
BOWMANSTOWNPALMERTON BASEBALL & SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION$7,200
Individual grant recipient$5,250
VALOR HOUSE$5,000
BOY SCOUT TROOP 209$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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
PALMERTON MEM PARK ASSN$2,500
RAISING THE HOUSE$2,500
PALMERTON HOLIDAY LIGHTING COM$2,500
OPERATIONS PATRIOT FOB$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%TURN TO US: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%TURN TO US: $2k → 10%TURN TO US: $2k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $3k → 13%TURN TO US: $2k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $3k → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $3k → 13%TURN TO US: $1k → 10%TURN TO US: $1k → 10%DISCOVERING MERCY: $1k → 11%DISCOVERING MERCY: $1k → 11%DISCOVERING MERCY: $1k → 11%DISCOVERING MERCY: $1k → 11%DISCOVERING MERCY: $500 → 11%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $3k → 10%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $2k → 10%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $2k → 10%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $2k → 10%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $1k → 10%PEACEFUL KNIGHTS: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
KS
TN
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$647k · 69 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
28

Total granted

$647k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+24%

Still filing today

32%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PK
    Peaceful Knights Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • PA
    Palmerton Area Historical Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +153%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • PC
    PALMERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2021 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LP
    LAKE PLACID ART LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marple Township Ambulance Corps

Provision of ambulance service and emergency first aid care

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Central Penn Business Group On Health

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…

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3
Pittston Township Ambulance Association

Provide quality emergency medical service and ambulance service to the pittston township community in luzerne county pennsylvania

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4
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
5
Pocono Mountain Regional Emergency Medical Services

Provide emergency ambulance services

Health
6
Pennsylvania Medical Society Charitable Trust Fka Fdn of the Pa Medical Society

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.

Health
7
Seven Mountains Emergency Medical Services Council Inc

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…

Health
8
Allegheny County Medical Society

Improving healthcare through education, advocacy, service, and physical well-being.

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9
Pocono Heritage Land Trust

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.

Environment
10
Delaware County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
11
South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc

Provide emergency medical services.

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12
Cambria Library Association

Public library services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINISI TRAILS COUNCIL - FRIENDS OF SCOUTING: $148,500 · OtherMINISI TRAILS COUNCIL - FRIENDS OF SCOUTINGCACPAC: $31,500 · OtherCACPACIndividual grant recipient: $23,900 · OtherPALMERTON LIBRARY: $23,500 · OtherPALMERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $21,000 · Other+75 more: $340,720 · Other+75 morePALMERTON MEMORIAL PARK ASSN INC: $42,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $250 · Recreation & SportsPeaceful Knights Inc: $9,700 · Human ServicesTURN TO US: $9,200 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesDISCOVERING MERCY: $4,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,900 · Human ServicesLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · EnvironmentWILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $3,950 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,200 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,000 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $4,500 · HealthHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $3,200 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthLEHIGHTON BOYS AND GIRLS BAND INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMAUCH CHUNK MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $3,700 · Arts & CultureCALADIUM ARTS & CRAFTS CO-OP INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureQUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTAFTON FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,100 · Public Safety & DisasterPALMERTON COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · Public Safety & DisasterLEHIGHTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$589,120Recreation & Sports$42,750Human Services$34,800Environment$30,450Health$22,400Arts & Culture$12,700Public Safety & Disaster$4,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALMERTON MEMORIAL PARK ASSN INC: $42,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSHEPHERD HOUSE INC: $16,400 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetPeaceful Knights Inc: $9,700 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetLEHIGHTON AREA MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $9,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTURN TO US: $9,200 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELEGANCE AT HERSHEY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPalmerton Area Historical Society: $7,450 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAUCH CHUNK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOCONO ALLIANCE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERING MERCY: $4,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $3,950 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUCH CHUNK MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $3,700 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARBON COUNTY FRIENDS OF ANIMALS: $3,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAFTON FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPALMERTON COMMUNITY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetQUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPMPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNo Longer Fatherless Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE WALLENPAUPACK WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DISTRICT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGHTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA BREAST CANCER COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LEHIGHTON BOYS AND GIRLS BAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUCH CHUNK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
  • Who funds Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ppl FoundationEssa Bank & Trust Fou…The Luzerne FoundationAllone CharitiesNetwork for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ppl FoundationPA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · The Luzerne Foundation · Allone Charities · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • No Longer Fatherless Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to A Donald & Mary G Behler Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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