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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others.

$187M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$30MCommunity Improvement$3.3MScience & Tech$2.5MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$815kPublic Benefit$662kArts & Culture$518kRecreation & Sports$346kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 48 grants below total $8,926,989, the rows itemized in this filing. The $186,791,238 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $177,864,249 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $446k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+12 grants · $6.7M
$84,601
Median grant
21
States reached
$3.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$1,198,295
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$1,192,148
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$1,089,138
GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP$553,834
BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$430,000
TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$363,350
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$349,742
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$346,680
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$332,329
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$309,291
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$308,325
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$261,920
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$245,656
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$175,929
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$151,058
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 (FY17–25, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BHUTANESE COMMUNITY IN HARRISBURG: $30k → 12%ALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES: $168k → 21%BHUTANESE COMMUNITY IN HARRISBURG: $14k → 12%ALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES: $150k → 21%BHUTANESE COMMUNITY IN HARRISBURG: $7k → 12%ALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES: $38k → 21%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $52k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $52k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $51k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $51k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $51k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $51k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $51k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 69 repeat orgs$653k to everyone else

69 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
17

Total granted

$37M
$451k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+44%

Still filing today

49%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +15%
  • BE
    BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +6% · 56% of their budget
  • Cornell University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +125%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $101k
  • SI
    STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $63k · revenue +149%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Stowers Institute for Medical Research. 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

53 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. 53 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
42/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Carnegie Mellon University: $9,439,524 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityBETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,036,753 · OtherBETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,974,376 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $2,397,283 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $1,196,606 · Other+50 more: $8,742,748 · Other+50 moreCornell University: $1,572,195 · EducationCornell UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,412,147 · EducationMassachusetts Institute …Teachers College Columbia University: $1,147,588 · EducationTeachers College Columbi…The Trustees of Princeton University: $727,501 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeto…Vanderbilt University: $636,984 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $584,204 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $552,280 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSI…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $409,142 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $348,097 · Education+15 more: $1,400,719 · Education+15 moreGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $1,217,895 · HealthBUTLER HOSPITAL: $150,064 · HealthRhode Island Hospital: $102,668 · HealthSTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $62,995 · Health+3 more: $50,769 · HealthHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $408,830 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES INC: $356,318 · Human ServicesBHUTANESE COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $50,223 · Human ServicesSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $377,489 · Arts & CultureARTSQUEST: $128,521 · Arts & CultureTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $64,731 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $11,516 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $329,619 · Recreation & SportsLEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LVEDC): $114,338 · Community ImprovementPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $55,323 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $35,958 · Community Improvement
Other$27,787,290Education$8,790,857Health$1,584,391Human Services$815,371Arts & Culture$582,257Recreation & Sports$329,619Community Improvement$205,619

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 budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $9,439,524 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,036,753 over 9y, 56% of budgetCornell University: $1,572,195 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,412,147 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $1,217,895 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $1,147,588 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $727,501 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $636,984 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $584,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $552,280 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $409,142 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $408,830 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $377,489 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES INC: $356,318 over 3y, 13% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $348,097 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $329,619 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Mudd College: $201,171 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $185,913 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $167,038 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $161,984 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $156,554 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $154,904 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBUTLER HOSPITAL: $150,064 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $134,730 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTSQUEST: $128,521 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $119,798 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LVEDC): $114,338 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $105,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $102,668 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $95,132 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute of Gas Technology: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $64,731 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $62,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $55,323 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBHUTANESE COMMUNITY OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $50,223 over 3y, 10% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $47,806 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $44,846 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $39,452 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $39,208 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $35,958 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $34,790 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $22,116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $15,006 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $12,959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $9,807 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE OF BORDER COLLABORATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

St Luke's Hospital of…Ppl FoundationAir Products Foundati…United Way of the Gre…Lehigh Valley Communi…Washington UniversityNational Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Martin Guitar Charita…John a and Margaret P…Northwestern Universi…Tulsa Community Found…
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem PaPA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Washington University · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Northwestern University · Tulsa Community 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 Lehigh University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lehigh University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Oregon Research Institute: 100% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 98 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 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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