Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $358k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $87,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 92
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Amaranth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $353k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $289k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $313k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $287k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $297k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $322k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 59 | $368k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $435k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown Symphony Association Inc | $670,050 | 9 | 4% |
| Wildlands Conservancy Inc | $275,900 | 9 | 1% |
| Pennyslvania Shakespeare Festival | $273,850 | 9 | 3% |
| Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $182,125 | 9 | 2% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $131,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Allentown Band Inc | $118,000 | 9 | 8% |
| The Baum School of Art | $85,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $82,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network | $72,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Music School | $62,700 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($461k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amaranth Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Amaranth Foundation
- How much does Amaranth Foundation give?
- Amaranth Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $358,260 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 92 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Amaranth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (63%), Environment (10%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Amaranth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allentown Symphony Association Inc ($670k), Wildlands Conservancy Inc ($276k), Pennyslvania Shakespeare Festival ($274k).
- Does Amaranth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Amaranth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Amaranth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry C Trexler Estate, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation.
- Where is Amaranth Foundation based?
- Amaranth Foundation is based in PA.
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