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Leona Gruber Charitable Trust at a glance

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Leona Gruber Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$596k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC$2,000
THE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON$2,000
GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK$1,250
KIDSPEACE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC$1,250
THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND$1,000
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH$1,000
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION$1,000
RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN$1,000
LIFEPATH FOUNDATION$1,000
BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC$1,000
SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC$1,000
RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC$1,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN$1,000
AMPUTEE AID$1,000
MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL BSA$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMPUTEE AID: $1k → 10%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%EQUI-LIBRIUM INC: $1k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $2k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $2k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHIL: $2k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND: $1k → 11%THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND: $1k → 11%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $1k → 11%FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $1k → 11%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $1k → 11%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $1k → 11%ASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $1k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $2k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $1k → 11%LIFEPATH FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $2k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $1k → 11%LIFEPATH FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%LIFEPATH FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $2k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $2k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $2k → 11%BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC: $1k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1k → 11%ITN LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC: $1k → 11%BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC: $1k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 35 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
16

Total granted

$138k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-5%

Still filing today

89%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionReligionCommunity 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

  • AA
    ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +137%
  • TS
    THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +58%
  • VO
    Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIDSPEACE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -5%
  • MS
    MERCY SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
2
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
3
Bethesda Children's Home

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.

Human Services
4
Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
5
Pinebrook Family Answers

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…

Human Services
6
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

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…

Health
7
Family Service Association of Bucks County

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…

Human Services
8
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
9
Ch Pennsylvania Under - 21

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Women Against Abuse Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Keystone Human Services

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…

Health
12
Fellowship Health Resources Inc

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
24/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHI…Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesVia of the Lehigh Valley IncMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $6,000 · Human ServicesMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORTBIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INCASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE TO AUTONOMY INCLIFEPATH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesLIFEPATH FOUNDATIONPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT OF EASTON INCYWCA ALLENTOWN: $3,000 · Human ServicesYWCA ALLENTOWNFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY: $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEYFAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INCBETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INCVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human Services+3 moreKIDSPEACE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,750 · OtherKIDSPEACE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC: $5,500 · OtherCENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF: $5,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OFTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC: $4,500 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INCNEW BETHANY INC: $4,000 · OtherNEW BETHANY INCNORTHERN LEHIGH RECREATION AUTHORITY: $3,250 · OtherNORTHERN LEHIGH RECREATION AUTHORITYTHE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $2,000 · OtherRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC: $3,000 · OtherRIPPLE COMMUNITY INCSAFE HARBOR EASTON INC: $3,000 · OtherSAFE HARBOR EASTON INC+14 more: $14,750 · Other+14 moreGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $5,250 · HealthGOOD SHEPHERD…THE ARC OF LEHIGH AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES INC: $4,000 · HealthTHE ARC OF LE…EASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $3,500 · HealthEASTER SEALS …PHOEBE HOME INC: $2,500 · HealthPHOEBE HOME I…KIDSPEACE CORPORATION: $1,500 · HealthKIDSPEACE COR…VISION TO LEARN: $1,000 · HealthVISION TO LEA…+1 more: $500 · HealthCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionBLOOM FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 · ReligionNEW PERSON MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 · ReligionDESALES UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Education
Human Services$55,000Other$52,750Health$18,250Youth Development$12,000Food & Nutrition$11,000Religion$5,000Education$4,000

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 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
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.

United Way of the Gre…Lehigh Valley Communi…Air Products Foundati…John a and Margaret P…Sylvia Perkin Perpetu…Harry C Trexler EstateThe Donald B and Doro…Ppl FoundationMartin Guitar Charita…Frederick H Bedford J…The Provident Bank Fo…Ross J Born and Wendy…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leona Gruber Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leona Gruber Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Leona Gruber Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Leona Gruber Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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