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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.

$125k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$27k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$561k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Ironpigs Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23
Recreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$27k50%
FY20236$55k83%
FY20224$27k25%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20192$11k100%
FY20181$5k0%
FY20178$43kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$56kRecreation & Sports$44kHuman Services$24kEducation$21kHealth$11kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ironpigs Charities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Valley Young Men's Christian Association: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMikaylas Voice: $14,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSt Anthony's Youth Center of Easton Pa Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAllentown School District Foundation: $12,700 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetValley Youth House Committee Inc: $12,301 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bike Works: $10,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Bethlehem: $10,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Lehigh Youth Baseball Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetEmerald Playground Association: $7,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetSalisbury Youth Association: $7,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCAT - Coalition for Appropriate Transportation: $7,200 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono: $5,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNortheast Community Center: $5,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCamelot for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Miracle League of the Lehigh Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 Community FoundationPA32.5× affinity13 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 · 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

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.

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About Ironpigs Charities

How much does Ironpigs Charities give?
Ironpigs Charities reported 4 itemized grants totaling $27,031, out of $125,334 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ironpigs Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (32%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Ironpigs Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Valley Young Men's Christian Association ($19k), Mikaylas Voice ($14k), St Anthony's Youth Center of Easton Pa Inc ($13k).
Does Ironpigs Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ironpigs Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Air Products Foundation.
Where is Ironpigs Charities based?
Ironpigs Charities is based in PA.

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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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