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Fleming 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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$11MPhilanthropy$1.8MYouth Development$630kAnimals$457kHuman Services$371kEnvironment$315kPublic Safety & Disaster$210kFood & Nutrition$117kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $621k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
$12,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND$1,480,000
LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL NETWORK$1,000,000
VALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS - VETERANS HEALTH PROGRAM$188,868
SALVATION ARMY OF ALLENTOWN$127,500
VALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS$100,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY$100,000
DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER$55,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$50,000
COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS$40,000
CALV - FOOD BANK - 6TH ST SHELTER$35,000
BURN PREVENTION NETWORK$35,000
MILLER KEYSTONE BLOOD CENTER$30,000
1 LOVE 4 ANIMALS$25,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY$25,000
AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%EQUI-LIBRIUM: $13k → 11%EQUI-LIBRIUM: $8k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $10k → 17%EQUI-LIBRIUM: $10k → 11%EQUI-LIBRIUM: $8k → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $10k → 17%EQUI-LIBRIUM: $8k → 11%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $10k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $8k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $6k → 17%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $5k → 6%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $10k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $5k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $5k → 11%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING: $5k → 11%BATTLE BORNE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 52 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
4

Total granted

$17M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

62%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +147%
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +67%
  • HB
    HCSC - BLOOD CENTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • JY
    Jarret Yoder Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -16%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Humane Pennsylvania

Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.

Animals
2
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
3
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
4
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
5
Humane Animal Rescue

We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…

Animals
6
Pennsylvania Veterinary Foundation

The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.

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7
Lycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.

Animals
8
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
9
Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire

The animal rescue league of new hampshire improves animal welfare in our communities by helping pets and the people who care for them.

—
10
Pastures of Point Lookout Inc
Animals
11
Heal Animal Rescue

To rescue and rehabilitate homeless animals; to provide veterinarian care, food, and shelter to dogs and cats awaiting their forever homes.

Animals
12
Leader Dogs for the Blind

Empowering people who are blind or visually impaired with lifelong skills for safe and independent daily travel.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cohesion Network. 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

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,480,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION+5 more: $405,000 · HealthLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL NETWORK: $4,855,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL NETWORKVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE: $640,000 · OtherVALLEY YOUTH HOUSEUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $509,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEYVALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS: $325,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF ALLENTOWN: $280,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $275,000 · OtherVALLEY HEALTH PARTNERS - VETERANS HEALTH PROGRAM: $268,753 · Other+27 more: $823,000 · Other+27 moreLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,620,000 · PhilanthropyLEHIGH VAL…ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $135,000 · Animals1LOVE4ANIMALS INC: $75,000 · AnimalsDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $35,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 · AnimalsCAT SHACK INC: $27,110 · AnimalsPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $25,000 · AnimalsLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsEQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $43,500 · Human ServicesSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $30,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBATTLE BORNE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $17,500 · Arts & CultureMUSICWORKS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $42,500 · Youth Development
Health$7,885,000Other$7,975,753Philanthropy$1,620,000Animals$357,110Human Services$153,500Arts & Culture$142,500Youth Development$122,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,480,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,620,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetBURN PREVENTION NETWORK: $185,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $135,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $80,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budget1LOVE4ANIMALS INC: $75,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN: $50,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $45,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $43,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $42,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetRyerss Farm for Aged Equines: $40,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCAT SHACK INC: $27,110 over 6y, 13% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICWORKS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BURN PREVENTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds 1LOVE4ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds TAILS OF VALOR PAWS OF HONOR PROGRAM IN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUI-LIBRIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
  • Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
  • Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Jarret Yoder Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAT SHACK INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗

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.

Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…The Century Fund TrustHarry C Trexler EstateAir Products Foundati…Ppl FoundationJohn a and Margaret P…Butz FoundationSylvia Perkin Perpetu…Amaranth FoundationMartin Guitar Charita…The Rider-Pool Founda…
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Butz Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Rider-Pool 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 Fleming Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fleming Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    5report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fleming Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fleming 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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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