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Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$973k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$243k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$862kArts & Culture$714kEducation$552kHuman Services$218kFood & Nutrition$81kEnvironment$70kReligion$56kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $779k
$48,659
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK$243,293
ALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT$145,976
Individual grant recipient$97,317
GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK$97,317
LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUMLCHS$97,317
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM & SITES INC$97,317
ALLENTOWN BAND INC$48,659
DANA HALL SCHOOL$48,659
Individual grant recipient$19,463
ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK$19,463
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS$9,732
GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS$9,732
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$9,732
LEHIGH VALLEY ACTIVE LIFE$9,732
SIXTH STREET SHELTER$9,732
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DANA HALL SCHOOL: $66k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS: $13k → 8%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUMLCHS: $131k → 11%DANA HALL SCHOOL: $49k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS: $10k → 8%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUMLCHS: $97k → 11%ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $26k → 11%ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $19k → 11%SIXTH STREET SHELTER: $13k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY ACTIVE LIFE: $13k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM: $10k → 11%GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS: $13k → 8%SIXTH STREET SHELTER: $10k → 11%GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DECENDANTS: $10k → 8%LEHIGH VALLEY ACTIVE LIFE: $10k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM: $8k → 11%ALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $7k → 11%ALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 11%ALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 11%ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $5k → 11%ALLENTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 11%LUTHER CREST - DIAKON OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $111k → 11%LUTHER CREST - DIAKON OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $97k → 11%ALLENTOWN BAND INC: $66k → 11%ALLENTOWN BAND INC: $49k → 11%LUTHER CREST - DIAKON OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $46k → 11%LUTHER CREST - DIAKON OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT: $19k → 11%KAYHART ARBORETUM AT LUTHERCREST: $5k → 11%LUTHER CREST BENEVOLENT CARE: $5k → 11%THE ALLENTOWN BAND INC: $5k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $131k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $97k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $7k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $6k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $5k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION: $5k → 11%NORTHEAST PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $13k → 11%NORTHEAST PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $10k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $6k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $6k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $6k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $5k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $5k → 11%NORTHEASTERN PA SYNOD OF ELCA: $5k → 11%HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM & SITES INC: $131k → 11%HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM & SITES INC: $97k → 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.
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.
$2.6M · 23 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
2

Total granted

$2.6M
$10k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $604k · revenue +601%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $258k · revenue +34%
  • HB
    HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES
    7× · 2018–2025 · $235k · revenue +536%

Funded once

  • KA
    KAYHART ARBORETUM AT LUTHERCREST
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • LC
    LUTHER CREST BENEVOLENT CARE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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3
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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4
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
7
Philadelphia County Medical Society

The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.

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8
Cedar Crest College

Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…

Education
9
Lancaster General Health Foundation

The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…

Philanthropy
10
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
11
Historical Society of Pennsylvania

To inspire individuals and organizations to create a better future through historical understanding.

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12
Delaware County Historical Society

Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh County Historical Society; the most unlike its peers is Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank. 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

12 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. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $604,174 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORKALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $342,705 · OtherALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICTIndividual grant recipient: $274,163 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUMLCHS: $228,470 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUMLCHS+10 more: $179,541 · Other+10 moreHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $235,470 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC BETHLEHEM …ALLENTOWN BAND INC: $131,235 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN BAND INCGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: $46,847 · Arts & CultureGENERAL SOCIETY OF …MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDENTS: $41,847 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS SOCIE…+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $257,970 · HealthGOOD SHEPHE…DANA HALL SCHOOL: $129,235 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $35,347 · EducationAllentown School District Foundation: $23,000 · EducationALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $62,694 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $16,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,629,053Arts & Culture$460,399Health$257,970Education$187,582Food & Nutrition$78,694

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $604,174 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $257,970 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $235,470 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetALLENTOWN BAND INC: $131,235 over 8y, 24% of budgetDANA HALL SCHOOL: $129,235 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $62,694 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: $46,847 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDENTS: $41,847 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $35,347 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAllentown School District Foundation: $23,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
  • Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDENTS ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Allentown School District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

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…Ppl FoundationHarry C Trexler EstateUnited Way of the Gre…Air Products Foundati…Amaranth FoundationThe Century Fund TrustBuehler Memorial Trus…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Buehler Memorial Trust Ua · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane E Fisher Charitable Trust/Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 25 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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