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· Community foundation
To provide education and recreational opportunities for children in the lehigh valley region and provide financial assistance to charitable organizations assisting families and youth in the lehigh valley region.
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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.
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their fullest potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Newtown Edgmont Little League is an organization sanctioned by Little League International and dedicated to youth baseball for children residing in and that attend school in Newtown and Edgmont Townships in Pennsylvania.
The boys & girls club of youngstown is dedicated to providing programs and services in a safe, supervised environment and to inspiring and enabling all young people of our community to realize their full potential as caring, productive and…
The organization provides educational and enrichment activities to over 1,500 youths ages 5 to 18 through year-round programs that focus on healthy lifestyles, academic success, college and career prep, and character development.
To enable youth to reach their full potential as prodcutive, caring, responsible citizens through year round and affordable access to a safe and positive child care environment that offers education, health and nutrition, and healthy…
Provide physical activity to help youth grow mentally and physically. we accomplish this by organizing and supervising baseeball games for boys and girls.
The antelope valley boys and girls club mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
Provide opportunities for youth in the Downingtown, PA community to play organized Little League baseball and softball in an instructional and fun environment that allows for competitive play with an emphasis on sportsmanship.
Little league baseball believes in the power of youth baseball and softball to teach life lessons that build stronger individuals and communities. there are over 400 children of the north pocono, pennsylvania area are served by the little…
To empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
To enable and inspire all young people, ages five to eighteen, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To inspire all youth especially those who need us the most to become productive, responsible and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86 · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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.
Every dot is one organisation IRONPIGS CHARITIES 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. 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.
Through Plinth
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EMERALD PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
US 501(c)(3); EIN 874816170 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on EMERALD PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Ironpigs Charities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.