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Md Lieberman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$851k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
46
Grants FY2024
46
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$357,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 46
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Md Lieberman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CultureInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving44$845k9%
FY202346$595k11%
FY202245$586k18%
FY202140$547k18%
FY202038$338k18%
FY201935$302k14%
FY201836$280k19%
FY201742$277kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MReligion$411kHealth$300kRecreation & Sports$80kInternational$68kFood & Nutrition$57kPhilanthropy$53kHousing & Shelter$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
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PA
NJ
RI
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CO
WV
VA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blair Academy$763,00080%
Lehigh University$231,00080%
Villanova University$231,00080%
St John Vianney$185,0005n/a
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc$104,00052%
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa$94,00080%
Blair in Kenya Inc$68,00086%
Lehigh Valley Hospital$62,00080%
Desales University$42,00080%
San Francisco Food Bank$39,50080%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Md Lieberman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlair Academy: $763,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLehigh University: $231,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $231,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $104,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSt Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa: $94,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBlair in Kenya Inc: $68,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetLehigh Valley Hospital: $62,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDesales University: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $39,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hillside School: $22,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCay Galgon Life House: $20,625 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe Allentown Parknership: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTelluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Telluride Medical Center Foundation: $11,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWildlands Conservancy Inc: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamelot for Children: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Swain School: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wrestling Hall of Fame: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Shelter: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRoger Williams University: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMacungie Ambulance Corps: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHcsc - Blood Center: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kindness Project: $3,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAngel 34: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Bike Works: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUpper Milford Western Fire District Fire Company No 1: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLehigh Valley Health Network: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontville Township First Aid Squad Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFaith in the Future Foundation: $1,000 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 33.

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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 ValleyPA35.9× affinity15 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 · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Butz Foundation · The Topper Foundation · William and Patricia Straccia · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Rider-Pool 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.

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How do I get to Md Lieberman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Md Lieberman Foundation 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.

About Md Lieberman Foundation

How much does Md Lieberman Foundation give?
Md Lieberman Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $851,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Md Lieberman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Religion (11%), Health (8%).
Who are Md Lieberman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blair Academy ($763k), Lehigh University ($231k), Villanova University ($231k).
Does Md Lieberman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Md Lieberman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Md Lieberman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Air Products Foundation, Ppl Foundation.
Where is Md Lieberman Foundation based?
Md Lieberman Foundation is based in PA.

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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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