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Lutron Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$221k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MEducation$589kInternational$510kArts & Culture$411kYouth Development$372kPublic Safety & Disaster$138kScience & Tech$128kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $346k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY$220,549
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$75,000
EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED$50,000
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK$45,300
JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$40,000
FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER$38,650
ST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK$38,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$22,000
VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE$15,000
MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$14,376
DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER$14,000
GOOD SHEPHERD$12,600
MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
PBS39$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC$9,100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOYNTON BEACH FIREFIGHTER BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $3k → 11%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $3k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $1k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Lutron Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 84%.

Lutron Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 81 repeat orgs$273k to everyone else

81 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
35

Total granted

$6.2M
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther
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

  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +601%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $349k · revenue +55%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ASIA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -21%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
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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2
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
3
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Pocono Health System

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.

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6
Lebanon Valley College

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.…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Lycoming College

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.

Education
10
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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12
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

The mission of pennsylvania institute of technology is student success. continued on schedule o.the college provides a supportive environment to enable committed students to succeed by offering the best collegiate education for career…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boynton Beach Firefighter Benevolent Assoc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 132 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
50/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $1,484,330 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORKUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $1,473,055 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEYFOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $382,700 · OtherFOX CHASE CANCER CENTERJEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $240,000 · Other+87 more: $925,881 · Other+87 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $335,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …DESALES UNIVERSITY: $73,103 · EducationDESALES U…NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationNORTHAMPT…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $32,000 · EducationMassachus…+10 more: $55,600 · Education+10 moreEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $450,000 · InternationalEisenhowe…THE ASIA SOCIETY: $100,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA …+1 more: $10,004 · InternationalST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK INC: $349,200 · HealthGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $125,170 · Health+3 more: $9,250 · HealthMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $182,936 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $164,745 · Youth Development+3 more: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $72,375 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $46,100 · Arts & CultureCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $41,186 · Arts & CultureSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $38,377 · Arts & CultureARTSQUEST: $37,097 · Arts & CulturePENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $32,290 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $30,700 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $13,630 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureElectrical Safety Foundation International Inc: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUPPER SAUCON VOL FIRE DEPT NO 1: $18,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOWER MACUNGIE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMACUNGIE AMBULANCE CORPS: $9,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$4,505,966Education$560,703International$560,004Health$483,620Youth Development$358,181Arts & Culture$329,755Public Safety & Disaster$88,000

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 budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $1,484,330 over 9y, 12% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $450,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK INC: $349,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $335,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $182,936 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $164,745 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $125,170 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $73,103 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $72,375 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $71,500 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: $69,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM: $46,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetElectrical Safety Foundation International Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA: $41,186 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $38,377 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetARTSQUEST: $37,097 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $32,290 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $32,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC: $30,920 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $30,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetELECTRI INTERNATIONAL - THE FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER SAUCON AMBULANCE CORPS: $18,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER SAUCON VOL FIRE DEPT NO 1: $18,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN LEHIGH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16,200 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSKILLS USA COUNCIL: $16,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetLOWER MACUNGIE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY: $13,630 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $10,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAT ASSOC OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMACUNGIE AMBULANCE CORPS: $9,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThe Foundation for Easton Schools: $5,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBURN PREVENTION NETWORK: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAllentown School District Foundation: $3,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Electrical Safety Foundation International Inc ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
  • Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ELECTRI INTERNATIONAL - THE FOUNDATION FOR ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SAUCON AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
  • Who funds UPPER SAUCON VOL FIRE DEPT NO 1 ↗

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.

Ppl FoundationAir Products Foundati…United Way of the Gre…Lehigh Valley Communi…Butz FoundationMartin Guitar Charita…Harry C Trexler EstateFrederick H Bedford J…Dexter F and Dorothy …The Century Fund TrustThe Rider-Pool Founda…Amaranth Foundation
Ppl FoundationPA61.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Butz Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Amaranth Foundation

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 Lutron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lutron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 132 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home