How much does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation give?

Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $11,085,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Education (8%), Human Services (2%).

Who are Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Allentown Symphony Association Inc ($1.5M), Allentown Art Museum ($750k), Susquehanna University ($600k).

Does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation, Harry C Trexler Estate.

Where is Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation based?

Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation is based in MO.

Foundation Dossiers

Missouri · Private foundation

Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2025: 45
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $11,085,368
Largest grant, FY2025: $11,085,368
Organizations funded a year: 40 to 47; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $157k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	1	$11M	100%
FY2024	45	$1.3M	7%
FY2023	45	$1.3M	24%
FY2022	47	$1.7M	11%
FY2021	44	$1.3M	20%
FY2020	40	$1.3M	53%
FY2018	43	$1.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$16MEducation$1.6MHuman Services$450kReligion$434kYouth Development$167kFood & Nutrition$139kHousing & Shelter$95kHealth$88kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Allentown Symphony Association Inc	$1,500,000	5	12%
Allentown Art Museum	$750,000	6	6%
Susquehanna University	$600,000	6	0%
State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc	$460,000	6	3%
Lehigh County Historical Society	$385,000	5	20%
Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa	$320,000	5	7%
National Museum of Industrial History	$315,000	6	6%
Zion United Lutheran Church	$210,000	6	n/a
Lutheran Senior Services East	$135,000	6	0%
White Haven Area Community Library	$116,000	6	30%

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All grantees of Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Allentown Symphony Association Inc	$1,500,000	5	12%
Allentown Art Museum	$750,000	6	6%
Susquehanna University	$600,000	6	0%
State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc	$460,000	6	3%
Lehigh County Historical Society	$385,000	5	20%
Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa	$320,000	5	7%
National Museum of Industrial History	$315,000	6	6%
Zion United Lutheran Church	$210,000	6	n/a
Lutheran Senior Services East	$135,000	6	0%
White Haven Area Community Library	$116,000	6	30%
Community Music School of Collegeville Ltd	$110,000	4	4%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc	$109,000	5	0%
Lutheran Brethren Conference Center	$100,000	1	n/a
Barrett Friendly Library	$100,000	4	8%
The Baum School of Art	$96,000	6	2%
Annie Halenbake Ross Library	$95,000	5	5%
Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network	$82,000	3	4%
Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Inc	$82,000	1	4%
Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc	$80,000	6	0%
New Bethany Inc	$70,000	4	1%
The Lehigh Conference of Churches	$67,500	4	0%
Repertory Dance Theatre	$66,500	6	2%
Allentown Band Inc	$60,000	6	8%
Palmerton Area Historical Society	$60,000	5	35%
Community Music School	$60,000	2	4%
The Hillside School	$55,000	5	1%
Wildlife Information Center Inc	$50,000	5	3%
Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley	$50,000	2	2%
Western Pocono Community Library	$50,000	1	6%
Pennyslvania Shakespeare Festival	$47,500	6	1%
America on Wheels Inc	$42,500	5	3%
Keys 2 Success Inc	$32,500	4	6%
Ballet Guild of the Lehigh Valley	$31,500	5	3%
Lehigh Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance	$30,500	2	7%
Community Services for Children Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Saint John Neumann Regional School System of the Diocese of Scranton	$30,000	1	n/a
Family Promise of Carbon County	$28,000	6	2%
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc	$27,500	5	1%
The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc	$27,000	1	1%
Allentown School District Foundation	$25,000	1	3%
Sights for Hope	$23,500	6	0%
Monroe County Historical Association Inc	$22,500	2	2%
Lehigh Valley Charter Hs for the Arts	$20,000	1	0%
Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Slatington Public Library	$17,500	2	8%
Southern Lehigh Public Library	$17,000	1	4%
Pocono Mountains Music Festival	$15,000	2	3%
Lehigh Valley Zoological Society	$15,000	2	0%
Meals on Wheels of Palmerton	$12,000	2	11%
Satori Ltd	$10,000	2	9%
Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Lower Macungie Library	$10,000	1	1%
Pregnancy Care Center of Carbon County	$9,000	2	2%
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa	$7,500	1	0%
Bible Fellowship Church	$5,000	1	n/a
Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39	$5,000	1	0%
Kutztown University Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Blue Mountain Hospital	$5,000	1	0%
Pregnancy Resource Center of Greater Hazleton	$4,000	1	n/a
Turn to US	$3,000	1	3%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 55.

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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 FoundationPA62.6× affinity28 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 · The Century Fund Trust · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · John a and Margaret Post 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 Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation

How much does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation give?: Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $11,085,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Education (8%), Human Services (2%).
Who are Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Allentown Symphony Association Inc ($1.5M), Allentown Art Museum ($750k), Susquehanna University ($600k).
Does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation, Harry C Trexler Estate.
Where is Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation based?: Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation is based in MO.