· Private foundation
Leona Gruber Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON | $2,000 |
| VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC | $2,000 |
| KIDSPEACE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC | $1,250 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK | $1,250 |
| SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC | $1,000 |
| THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH | $1,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC | $1,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $1,000 |
| RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN | $1,000 |
| VISION TO LEARN | $1,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN | $1,000 |
| ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AMPUTEE AID | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AAALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +37%
- TSTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +58%
- VOVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- KCKIDSPEACE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -5%
- MSMERCY SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Bethesda's vision is to fulfill the social, emotional, spiritual, and behavioral health needs of children, families, and individuals by providing an effective and efficient continuum of care in a quality focused environment.
We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…
The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Keystone organizations (keystone) provide comprehensive community-based services for children, young people, adults and families in the areas of intellectual disability, autism, mental health, and children and family services. keystone…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspire to Autonomy Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 55 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 AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds KIDSPEACE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA ALLENTOWN ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PERSON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSPEACE CORPORATION ↗
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 · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust
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 Leona Gruber Charitable Trust 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.
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