· Private foundation
Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY | $113,877 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $80,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN | $70,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $14,750 |
| BASD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NCC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF OFANIM | $4,116 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE | $3,600 |
| SIGHTS FOR HOPE | $3,200 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY | $3,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $2,500 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN | $2,500 |
| LOST TRIBE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $44k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $472k · revenue +67%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN8× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +29%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- JCJAMES COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- HSHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
- TSTHE SWAIN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%
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.
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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…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
Valley day school is a private, non-profit, state-funded, special education school licensed by the pennsylvania department of education for students who are experiencing learning and/or adjustment difficulties.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The jewish day school of the lehigh valley is a nonprofit community school for primary-kindergarten to grade eight, that is dedicated to a holistic approach to education. the school is devoted to the development of bright, confident…
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…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Humanistic Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bialystok Cemetery Restoration Fund 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 119 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY JUSTICE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds REAL WORLD LEADERS ↗
- Who funds EQUI-LIBRIUM INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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 · Harry C Trexler Estate · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Shaffer Family 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 Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% of income from government
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.