Pennsylvania · Public charity
Desales University
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
- $53M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $38k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,775
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $261M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Desales University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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 | 6 | $38k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $44k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $30k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nativity Preparatory School | $55,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa | $25,150 | 4 | 0% |
| Oblates of St Francis Desales | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mustard Seed Communities Inc | $21,275 | 2 | 0% |
| Oblates of St Francis de Sales | $12,910 | 1 | n/a |
| Lehigh Valley Hospital | $10,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Campus Ministry Association | $10,207 | 1 | n/a |
| Mercy Special Learning Center Inc | $5,098 | 1 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Allentown Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Desales University
- How much does Desales University give?
- Desales University reported 6 itemized grants totaling $38,173, out of $53,362,746 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Desales University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (24%), Health (18%).
- Who are Desales University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nativity Preparatory School ($55k), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival ($30k), St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa ($25k).
- Does Desales University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Desales University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Desales University based?
- Desales University is based in PA.
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