· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAT PHIL TR-HOMMER DAF AGY | $11,085,368 |
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 (FY18–24, $412k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
57 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- ASALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +35%
- AAALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM6× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +48%
- SUSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $300k
- LBLUTHERAN BRETHREN CONFERENCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TPTURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $82k · revenue +103%
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.
Public lending library
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Public lending library
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Promote all art disciplines including exhibitions, dance productions, concerts, educational seminars and theatre. the organization has established a center for the arts in lebanon pennsylvania.
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
Public lending library
Public lending library
Public lending library
The mission of the western allegheny community library is to provide a safe, inclusive and accessible community-centered library that is free to the public and empowers its residents personal, educational and professional growth through…
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39 and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of Carbon County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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. 56 of the 93 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 ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST ↗
- Who funds WHITE HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BARRETT FRIENDLY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds ANNIE HALENBAKE ROSS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Palmerton Area Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Western Pocono Community Library ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
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 · 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
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 Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation 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.