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Amanda a Baum Tr FBO Ephrata Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$371kHealth$11k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PA$7,000
KING'S COLLEGE$7,000
LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE$7,000
DICKINSON COLLEGE$7,000
SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY$7,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$3,500
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY$3,500
Kutztown University$3,500
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$3,500
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$3,500
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$3,500
GROVE CITY COLLEGE$3,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS$3,500
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE$3,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%GORDON COLLEGE: $4k → 10%Boston University: $4k → 16%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%WEST CHESTER UNIV OF PA: $4k → 6%DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 6%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $7k → 8%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4k → 9%LANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $11k → 10%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%Lafayette College: $4k → 11%ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $7k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $7k → 11%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $7k → 13%JUNIATA COLLEGE: $7k → 13%BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PA: $7k → 14%Indiana University of Pennsylvania: $7k → 14%WILKES UNIVERSITY: $4k → 15%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $4k → 14%ITHICA COLLEGE: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $7k → 13%Emory University: $4k → 14%TAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $7k → 11%EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%WASHINGTON COLLEGE: $4k → 12%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $28k → 8%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCE: $4k → 9%SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%Lehigh University: $4k → 11%Kutztown University: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4k → 11%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $4k → 11%GROVE CITY COLLEGE: $4k → 13%BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PA: $4k → 14%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4k → 22%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%MESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
WV
VA
MD
DE
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$252k · 15 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

$252k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • MU
    MESSIAH UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +3%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • LV
    LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • JC
    JUNIATA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +29%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
8
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
11
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
12
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh University and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Mennonite University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 81 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr15%0%35–55yr17%87%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr15%0%35–55yr17%84%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,126

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.

04the grantee network

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 47 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $45,500 · EducationMESSIAH UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $24,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $21,000 · EducationLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGESUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · EducationSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITYGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $10,500 · Education+22 more — $94,500 · Education+22 morePENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $59,500 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYIndiana University of Pennsylvania — $10,500 · OtherIndiana University of PennsylvaniaPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PA — $10,500 · OtherBLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PASLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY — $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $7,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY — $7,000 · OtherKutztown University — $7,000 · Other+10 more — $35,000 · Other+10 more
Education$213,500Other$168,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY — $45,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKING'S COLLEGE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTaylor University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Mennonite University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Amanda a Baum Tr FBO Ephrata Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Washington College — 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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