· Community foundation
Ironpigs Charities
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $27,031 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,334 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,303 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| COALITION FOR APPROPRIATE TRANSPORTATION | $7,200 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $6,831 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BETHLEHEM | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +33% 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.
Backed again, and grew
- MVMIKAYLAS VOICE2× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +129%
- ASAllentown School District Foundation2× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +16%
- VYVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC2× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- SAST ANTHONY'S YOUTH CENTER OF EASTON PA INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +24%
- SLSouthern Lehigh Youth Baseball Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +51%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Organized youth sports events
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.
Provide physical activity to help youth grow mentally and physically. we accomplish this by organizing and supervising baseeball games for boys and girls.
The boys & girls club of youngstown is dedicated to providing programs and services in a safe, supervised environment and to inspire and enable all young people of our community to realize their full potential as caring, productive and…
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…
Provide opportunities for youth in the Downingtown 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.
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 promote youth baseball
Upper perk youth baseball provides instructional baseball to boys and girls ages 5-12 in the upper perkiomen valley. good sportsmanship and competitive organized baseball is provided by an all volunteer staff. upyba operates a two season…
Little league baseball program for boys and girls ages 5 to 12 in the city of franklin, pa and surrounding communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Youth House Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cat - Coalition for Appropriate Transportation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 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 GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIKAYLAS VOICE ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH CENTER OF EASTON PA INC ↗
- Who funds Allentown School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds Southern Lehigh Youth Baseball Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERALD PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAT - Coalition for Appropriate Transportation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Butz Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker 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 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: 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.