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.

Amaranth Foundation

Amaranth Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$87k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEnvironment$295kReligion$282kEducation$144kPhilanthropy$91kCommunity Improvement$83kAnimals$75kHealth$75kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $57k
$10k–50k10 grants · $215k
$50k–250k1 grant · $87k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$30k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY	$15,000
WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY	$15,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY	$15,000
UNITED WAY OF LEHIGH VALLEY	$15,000
PHOEBE MINISTRIES	$6,500
METROPOLITAN OPERA THE	$5,500
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE	$5,500
ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.0M · 97 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.0M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+25%

Still filing today

75%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationHealthOther

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

AS
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +60%
PS
PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $274k · revenue +55%
BC
BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM
9× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue +26%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $7k
CB
COMMUNITY BIKE WORKSgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +38%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2019 · $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.

American Humane Association

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…

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals

Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

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,…

Animals

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment

World Animal Protection

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…

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Panthera Corporation

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.

Animals

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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…

Science & Tech

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

110/112

Grantees still filing

79/112

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,669,740Other$717,553Environment$292,675Education$186,495Health$79,085Animals$49,498International$11,001

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

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.

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.

Harry C Trexler EstatePA63.4× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Amaranth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amaranth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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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.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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