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Berkheimer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY | $16,000 |
| HCSC BLOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PEN ARGYL ATHLETIC AND PARK ASSOCIATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TFTHE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY3× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +44%
- NCNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +59%
- AAALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM3× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- EHEAST HILLS MORAVIAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $20k
- PYPALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -100%
- CFCAMELOT FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Public lending library
Pennsylvania highlands community college foundation is dedicated to supporting the efforts of the college with financial resources. the foundation actively seeks and secures funds to provide scholarships and to support college programs and…
Monongahela valley association of health centers, inc. (mva) is committed to providing quality health care, at a reasonable cost, to all residents of its service area.
To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.
Public library services
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
Education: Philadelphia-Montgomery Academy's mission is to provide excellent Academic Education within the context of a consistent Christian world-and-life view for the children of Christian families.
The pennsylvania recreation and park society empowers recreation and park professionals and citizen advocates to enhance life-enriching services for all pennsylvanians.
To provide public library services and promote reading to delmont pennsylvania and surrounding communities.
The purpose of the penn area library is to select, make available, and maintain resources in a variety of formats, meeting the educational, informational, and recreational needs of our community. the penn area library offers this service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camelot for Children and the most unlike its peers is Palmer Youth Center Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 THE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BRODHEADS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PEN ARGYL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORY HOUSE OF LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
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: St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Berkheimer 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.
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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