Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Harry C Trexler Estate
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,801,763
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 96
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $126M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Harry C Trexler Estate funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 84 | $5.4M | 7% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $5.4M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 86 | $6.2M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $6.0M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $5.7M | 3% |
| FY2020 | 89 | $5.7M | 9% |
| FY2019 | 96 | $5.9M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 94 | $5.2M | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allentown Art Museum | $1,880,000 | 9 | 12% |
| Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc | $1,355,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Casa Guadalupe Center | $1,285,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Greater Valley Young Men's Christian Association | $1,250,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Baum School of Art | $1,172,525 | 9 | 15% |
| Sacred Heart Hospital of Allentown | $975,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pinebrook Family Answers | $916,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc | $845,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Lehigh Conference of Churches | $810,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa | $755,000 | 9 | 11% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($21M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry C Trexler Estate supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Century Fund Trust · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harry C Trexler Estate
- How much does Harry C Trexler Estate give?
- Harry C Trexler Estate reported 91 grants totaling $5,359,288 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 96 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry C Trexler Estate fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (35%), Human Services (16%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Harry C Trexler Estate's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allentown Art Museum ($1.9M), Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc ($1.4M), Casa Guadalupe Center ($1.3M).
- Does Harry C Trexler Estate fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry C Trexler Estate accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry C Trexler Estate?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, The Century Fund Trust.
- Where is Harry C Trexler Estate based?
- Harry C Trexler Estate is based in PA.
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