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Lehigh Valley Community Foundation
The purpose of the LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is to develop, manage and distribute the philanthrophy of a variety of donors in order to improve the quality of life for residents of the lehigh valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 132 grants below total $8,613,335 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,414,334 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $800,999 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k76 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL | $1,123,685 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLETE | $1,100,000 |
| DESALES UNIVERISTY | $1,027,590 |
| NEW BETHANY INC | $807,745 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $573,716 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK | $412,409 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $287,180 |
| FRIENDS OF MISHTERET YISRAEL - YATAR DIVISION INC | $132,000 |
| MORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM | $122,685 |
| ARTSQUEST | $117,500 |
| BRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER | $110,500 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $107,910 |
| OHR TORAH STONE INSTITUTIONS OF ISRAEL | $105,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF EAST STROUDSBURG | $91,020 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $80,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
188 repeat relationships — 111 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 17 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $374k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +179%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +183%
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK INCone grant, 2017 · $260k · revenue -36%
- WWESTEDone grant, 2022 · $225k
- AIANSWERS IN GENESIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $168k · revenue +100%
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.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Lebanon valley college educates students for lifelong success through exceptional undergraduate liberal-arts programs and professional graduate programs delivered in an engaging and supportive academic and co-curricular environment.…
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Partners Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is Mariton Wildlife Sanctuary and Wilderness Trust. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
247 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. 247 of the 323 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY INDUSTRIAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Harry C Trexler Estate · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · The Rider-Pool 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 Lehigh Valley Community 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.
- The Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc — 68% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
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.