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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.

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$62kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$59kEducation$53kHealth$20kRecreation & Sports$20kCommunity Improvement$16kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY$16,000
HCSC BLOOD CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM$10,000
RAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY$5,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$5,000
PEN ARGYL ATHLETIC AND PARK ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOROUGH OF AMBRIDGE: $10k → 10%PALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECT: $20k → 11%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF PLEASANT VALLEY MANOR: $2k → 12%CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $10k → 8%BOROUGH OF AMBRIDGE: $5k → 10%BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9k → 11%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 11%BRODHEAD WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $4k → 12%RAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $10k → 8%SLATE BELT YMCA: $5k → 11%ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 11%BROADHEAD WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $4k → 12%LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $5k → 8%PEN ARGYL ATHLETIC AND PARK ASSOCIATION: $5k → 11%SLATINGTON MASONIC LODGE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BRODHEAD WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $4k → 12%RAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $5k → 8%EAST HILLS MORAVIAN CHURCH: $20k → 11%FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $16k → 11%BRODHEAD WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $15k → 11%FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $15k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $10k → 11%FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $11k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $6k → 11%CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $5k → 11%HCSC BLOOD CENTER: $10k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $3k → 11%MORAVIAN ACADEMY: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $8k → 11%VICTORY HOUSE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $4k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $5k → 11%MORAVIAN ACADEMY: $4k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $3k → 11%NORTHHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 11%NORTHHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 9 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$215k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • TF
    THE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +44%
  • NC
    NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • AA
    ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • EH
    EAST HILLS MORAVIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • PY
    PALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • CE
    CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.

1
Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School

To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.

Education
2
Penn Hills Library

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.

Education
3
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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4
Pennsylvania Highlands Cc Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
5
Monongahela Valley Assoc of Health Centers

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.

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6
Pennsylvania Veterans Museum

To educate the public about the experiences and history of veterans.

Arts & Culture
7
Cambria Library Association

Public library services

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8
The Learning Community of Pennsylvania

To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.

Human Services
9
Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian Academy

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.

Education
10
Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society

The pennsylvania recreation and park society empowers recreation and park professionals and citizen advocates to enhance life-enriching services for all pennsylvanians.

Recreation & Sports
11
Delmont Public Library

To provide public library services and promote reading to delmont pennsylvania and surrounding communities.

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12
Penn Area Library

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camelot for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $38,500 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSELEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHS: $30,500 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY CHAPTER NRHSEAST HILLS MORAVIAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherEAST HILLS MORAVIAN CHURCHPALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECT: $20,000 · OtherPALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECTRAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $15,000 · OtherRAILROAD HISTORIANS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEYIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9,000 · OtherMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $9,000 · Other+5 more: $20,500 · Other+5 moreTHE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $42,000 · ReligionTHE FELLOWSHIP …NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationNORTHAMPTON …CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCRESTWOOD ED…ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN…BRODHEADS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $14,500 · EnvironmentHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$177,500Religion$42,000Education$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000Environment$14,500Health$10,000Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FELLOWSHIP COMMUNITY: $42,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPALMER YOUTH CENTER PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBRODHEADS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $14,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEN ARGYL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget
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.

  • 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 HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRESTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PEN ARGYL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds VICTORY HOUSE OF LEHIGH VALLEY ↗

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.

St Luke's Hospital of…John a and Margaret P…Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Air Products Foundati…Ppl FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem PaPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Berkheimer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Berkheimer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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