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Leona Gruber Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
26%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 27
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$596k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Leona Gruber Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterReligionFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$25k17%
FY202427$25k26%
FY202323$27k35%
FY202224$27k33%
FY202121$27k43%
FY202019$27kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$45kHealth$24kYouth Development$18kHousing & Shelter$13kFood & Nutrition$12kEducation$11kReligion$11kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Leona Gruber Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank$10,00060%
Third Street Alliance for Women and Children$7,00050%
Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc$6,00040%
Moms Offering Moms Support$6,00062%
Kidspeace Children's Hospital$5,75040%
Center for Humanistic Change Inc$5,50050%
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network$5,25040%
Camelot for Children$5,00040%
Bible Fellowship Church Homes Inc$5,00050%
The Children's Home of Easton Inc$4,50040%
New Bethany Inc$4,00040%
The Arc of Lehigh and Northampton Counties Inc$4,00020%
Desales University$4,00030%
Aspire to Autonomy Inc$4,00042%
Minsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America$4,00030%
Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania$3,50030%
Lifepath Foundation$3,50030%
Project of Easton Inc$3,50030%
Northern Lehigh Recreation Authority$3,2504n/a
YWCA Allentown$3,00020%
Safe Harbor Easton Inc$3,00030%
Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc$3,00040%
Family Promise Lehigh Valley$3,00030%
Family Connection of Easton Inc$3,00030%
Bethlehem Emergency Sheltering Inc$3,00030%
Bloom for Women Inc$3,00030%
Ripple Community Inc$3,00030%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc$2,50020%
Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley$2,50020%
Phoebe Home Inc$2,50020%
New Person Ministries Inc$2,00020%
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc$2,00020%
Kidspeace Corporation$1,50010%
Mercy Special Learning Center Inc$1,5001n/a
Vision to Learn$1,00010%
Equi-Librium Inc$1,00010%
Phantoms Charities$1,00011%
Whole Life Center$1,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc$1,00010%
Amputee Aid$1,00011%
Independent Transportation Network Lehigh Valley$1,00011%
Holy Family Senior Living$50010%
Maternity Care Coalition$50010%
Holy District Brethren in Christ Church$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leona Gruber Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAllentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank: $10,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThird Street Alliance for Women and Children: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMoms Offering Moms Support: $6,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetKidspeace Children's Hospital: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Humanistic Change Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Rehabilitation Network: $5,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamelot for Children: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBible Fellowship Church Homes Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Easton Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Bethany Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Lehigh and Northampton Counties Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDesales University: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAspire to Autonomy Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMinsi Trails Council #502 Boy Scouts of America: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Eastern Pennsylvania: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifepath Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetProject of Easton Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Allentown: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSafe Harbor Easton Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Allentown Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise Lehigh Valley: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Connection of Easton Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBethlehem Emergency Sheltering Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBloom for Women Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRipple Community Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetValley Youth House Committee Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHispanic Center Lehigh Valley: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoebe Home Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Person Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKidspeace Corporation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVision to Learn: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqui-Librium Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhantoms Charities: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMeals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmputee Aid: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIndependent Transportation Network Lehigh Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHoly Family Senior Living: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA59.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Leona Gruber Charitable Trust

How much does Leona Gruber Charitable Trust give?
Leona Gruber Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Leona Gruber Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Health (15%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are Leona Gruber Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank ($10k), Third Street Alliance for Women and Children ($7k), Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc ($6k).
Does Leona Gruber Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leona Gruber Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leona Gruber Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Air Products Foundation.
Where is Leona Gruber Charitable Trust based?
Leona Gruber Charitable Trust is based in MO.

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 55 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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