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Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for people of all skill and education levels.

$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
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 2024.

Science & Tech$4.0MEnvironment$466kCommunity Improvement$208kEmployment$22kPublic Benefit$19k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $27,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $32,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.
$27,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION$27,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $17k → 11%MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: $32k → 11%MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: $19k → 11%THE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $466k → 11%DA VINCI SCIENCE CENTER: $2.0M → 11%DA VINCI SCIENCE CENTER: $2.0M → 11%WORKFORCE BOARD LEHIGH VALLEY: $22k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $27k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $27k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORPORATION: $27k → 11%CITY OF BETHLEHEM: $19k → 11%BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 11%BETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 6 repeat orgs$523k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$4.2M
$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TD
    THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4.0M · revenue +592% · 67% of their budget
  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORP
    3× · 2022–2024 · $81k · revenue +55%
  • MR
    MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $51k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
    one grant, 2021 · $466k
  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +17%
  • CO
    CITY OF BETHLEHEM
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
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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Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…

Community Improvement
2
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
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3
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the strategic plan is to position lancaster county businesses to thrive. by…

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4
Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce

To improve the economy and quality of communities in the lehigh valley metropolitan area.

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5
Allentown Economic Development Corporation

To proactively identify, encourage, manage and develop strategic business opportunities for the benefit of allentown, its citizens, and the lehigh valley.

Community Improvement
6
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc

See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…

Arts & Culture
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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8
Private Industry Council of Lehigh Valley Inc

In response to business needs and to support pennsylvanians with disabilities to achieve greater independence, choice and opportunity, private industry council of the lehigh valley, inc. (pic) provides job placement and employment…

Employment
9
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia

The chamber of commerce for greater philadelphia (the chamber) brings area businesses and civic leaders together to promote growth and create opportunity in our region. our members represent eleven counties, three states, and roughly…

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10
Lebanon Valley Economic Development Corporation

Continuing study of economic development, site identification and development, and industrial solicitation in a continuing effort to revitalize the local business sector.

Community Improvement
11
Lansing Economic Area Partnership

We build a stronger community for all, working everyday to grow, retain and attract business to the region.

Community Improvement
12
Lehigh Valley Industrial Park Inc

Create jobs, expand the regional tax base, diversify the local economy and to promote the economic vitality and enhance the quality of life in the lehigh valley.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Economic Investment Corp; the most unlike its peers is The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,996,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INCTHE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT COMPANY: $466,250 · OtherTHE WATERFRONT …LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORP: $81,000 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY E…MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: $50,925 · OtherMANUFACTURERS R…GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+2 more: $34,025 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $21,698 · PhilanthropyLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $16,500 · EducationGreater Easton Development Partnership: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$3,996,000Other$662,200Philanthropy$21,698Education$16,500Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,996,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC INVESTMENT CORP: $81,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetMANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: $50,925 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $21,698 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGreater Easton Development Partnership: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Air Products Foundati…Lehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Ppl FoundationAmerican Online Givin…
Air Products FoundationPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Air Products Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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