· Private foundation
Buehler Memorial Trust Ua
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOYT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $44,757 |
| DELAWARE & LEHIGH NATIONAL HERITAGE | $18,289 |
| RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC | $12,800 |
| ST LUKES HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA | $11,200 |
| HOLY FAMILY MANOR | $11,173 |
| ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| VIA OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC | $8,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $8,000 |
| TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $8,000 |
| MEAL ON WHEELS GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $8,000 |
| SIGHTS FOR HOPE | $8,000 |
| ORWIGSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,516 |
| HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM AND SITES | $2,361 |
| LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $509 |
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 (FY20–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- HCHOYT CENTER FOR THE ARTS6× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +287%
- RTRAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +81%
- SFSIGHTS FOR HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +50%
Funded once
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.
Allentown art museums mission is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit important works of art, and through them, increase the understanding, appreciation, enjoyment & interest in art and its ability to enhance and enrich the lives of the…
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.
Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
Collects, restores, preserves, and interprets material culture, historic buildings, and history associated with crafts, trades and industries in the 18th and 19th centuries.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To operate as a museum of road transportation, vehicles, artifacts, roadside culture, alternative propulsion, and vehicle builders focused on pennsylvania and the greater delaware valley; as well as the historic vehicles built by jeremiah…
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.
The mission of the pennsylvania trolley museum is to preserve and perpetuate its cllection of historic transportation equipment, artifacts and archives and utilize the collection and other resources to provide an unparalleled immersive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 HOYT CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RAILWAYS TO YESTERDAY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Harry C Trexler Estate · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Cigna Group 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 Buehler Memorial Trust Ua 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.