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Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,085,368
Median grant
1
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAT PHIL TR-HOMMER DAF AGY$11,085,368
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TURN TO US INC: $3k → 10%KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $10k → 10%KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $10k → 10%KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $8k → 10%KEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $5k → 10%Pregnancy Resource Center of Greater Haz: $4k → 15%SIGHTS FOR HOPE: $5k → 12%FAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE-CARBON COUNTY: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $5k → 10%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $25k → 11%Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley: $25k → 11%Family Promise-Carbon County: $3k → 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $23k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $23k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $22k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $22k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $20k → 11%Turning Point of Lehigh Valley Inc: $82k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS: $18k → 11%Lehigh Valley Children's Centers: $15k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS: $15k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $13k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS: $10k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $10k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS INC: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $4k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS: $3k → 11%Center For Vision Loss: $3k → 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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 57 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
35

Total granted

$7.2M
$994k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+24%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • AS
    ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +35%
  • AA
    ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +48%
  • SU
    SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $300k
  • LB
    LUTHERAN BRETHREN CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TP
    TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $82k · revenue +103%
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.

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Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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2
Adamstown Area 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…

Education
3
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
4
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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5
Penn Hills 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.

Education
6
Lebanon Valley Council On the Arts

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.

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7
Pike County Public Library Inc

Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania

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8
Scranton Public Library

Public lending library

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9
Dalton Community Library

Public lending library

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10
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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11
Western Allegheny Community 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…

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12
Carbondale Public Library

Public lending library

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lv Public Telecommunications Corp Wlvt-Tv Channel 39; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 93 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAT PHIL TR-HOMMER DAF AGY: $11,085,368 · OtherNAT PHIL TR-HOMMER DAF AGY+55 more: $2,531,000 · Other+55 moreALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOC…ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $750,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN ART MUSEUMSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $460,000 · Arts & CultureSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR…LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $385,000 · Arts & CultureLEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL…CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $320,000 · Arts & CultureCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTO…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $315,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUS…+11 more: $448,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationANNIE HALENBAKE ROSS LIBRARY: $95,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $89,500 · EducationVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $109,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $82,000 · Human ServicesLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $50,000 · Human ServicesKEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $28,000 · Human ServicesSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $23,500 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $135,000 · Housing & ShelterWILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $27,500 · Youth Development
Other$13,616,368Arts & Culture$4,178,500Education$814,500Human Services$412,000Housing & Shelter$135,000Environment$50,000Youth Development$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $750,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $460,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetLEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $385,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $320,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $315,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $116,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD: $110,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $109,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARRETT FRIENDLY LIBRARY: $100,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetTHE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART: $96,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetANNIE HALENBAKE ROSS LIBRARY: $95,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetPleasant Valley Ecumenical Network: $82,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $82,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES: $67,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $66,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetALLENTOWN BAND INC: $60,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetPalmerton Area Historical Society: $60,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOL: $55,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWestern Pocono Community Library: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $47,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA ON WHEELS INC: $42,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetKEYS 2 SUCCESS INC: $32,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetBALLET GUILD OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $31,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $30,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CARBON COUNTY: $28,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAllentown School District Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE: $23,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HS FOR THE ARTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSLATINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetSOUTHERN LEHIGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $17,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPOCONO MOUNTAINS MUSIC FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Palmerton: $12,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSATORI LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 Pleasant Valley Ecumenical Network ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
  • 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 ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Palmerton Area Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 EstateThe Century Fund TrustUnited Way of the Gre…Air Products Foundati…Martin Guitar Charita…Sylvia Perkin Perpetu…Amaranth FoundationRoss J Born and Wendy…Dexter F and Dorothy …John a and Margaret P…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 93 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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