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Amaranth Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $87,000 |
| BAUM SCHOOL OF ART | $37,500 |
| ST JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $30,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $25,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $24,000 |
| ALLENTOWN BAND THE | $20,000 |
| BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM THE | $17,500 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $15,000 |
| HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY | $15,000 |
| PHOEBE MINISTRIES | $6,500 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA THE | $5,500 |
| ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +60%
- PSPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +55%
- BCBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM9× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $7k
- CBCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +38%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gress Mountain Ranch Inc. 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 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
112 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. 112 of the 159 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 ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SALISBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Century Fund Trust · Air Products Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Butz 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 Amaranth 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.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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