· Private foundation
John E Morgan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $219k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $637k
- $250k+6 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HARVEST | $1,350,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $720,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $600,000 |
| BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD | $400,000 |
| TAMAQUA AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $228,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL COUNTY UNITED WAY | $120,000 |
| LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGEFALL | $116,901 |
| LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FAL | $61,817 |
| LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FAL | $60,672 |
| TAMAQUA AREA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| TAMAQUA AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUM | $13,497 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $671k 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
- TATAMAQUA AREA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue ×12 · 45% of their budget
- HHHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +65%
- LCLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $492k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $90k
- APAMERICAN PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHRURCHone grant, 2023 · $75k
- SHSCHUYLKILL HOPE CENTERSWICone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Harcum college provides its students with an opportunity for outstanding academic, career, and life preparation. we teach, mentor, and prepare students for success in their chosen professions in an experiential environment. harcum's core…
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Assist bucks county community college by providing expanded resources for the college's growth and development. foundation funds support instructional resources, campus facilities, scholarships and awards, cultural activities, and special…
See schedule othe harrisburg university of science and technology offers innovative academic and research programs in science and technology that respond to local and global needs. the institution fosters a diverse community of learners,…
Luzerne county community college provides excellence in education, fosters student success in achievement of goals, and positively impacts luzerne county and the surrounding northeastern pennsylvania region.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
The foundation for sussex county community college enhances the college's mission of providing educational excellence and cultural opportunities to the residents of sussex county and beyond. the foundation supports the mission through…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
In partnership with students, educators, businesses and our diverse communities, hacc foundation fosters excellence in the educational, cultural, workforce development and economic growth of the college's service areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tamaqua Area Adult Day Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 98 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 TAMAQUA AREA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL WOMEN IN CRISIS ↗
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: Ppl Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Cigna Group Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 John E Morgan Foundation Inc 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.
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