How much does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust give?

Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust reported 75 grants totaling $377,468 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 73 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Human Services (15%), Health (3%).

Who are Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley ($472k), Jewish Community Center of Allentown ($251k), Jewish Family Service ($42k).

Does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust 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 Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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 Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust based?

Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust is based in FL.

Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust

Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$377k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$114k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$347kHealth$78kArts & Culture$62kEducation$49kYouth Development$44kHousing & Shelter$33kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0

02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k69 grants · $71k
$10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$50k–250k3 grants · $264k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
LOST TRIBE	$2,500
LEHIGH VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA	$2,500
SPOTLIGHT PA	$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 86 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+26%

Still filing today

59%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY
6× · 2020–2025 · $472k · revenue +67%
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN
8× · 2017–2025 · $251k · revenue +29%
CA
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +112%

Funded once

JC
JAMES COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $15k
HS
HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
TS
THE SWAIN SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%

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.

Community Day School

At community day school, we are committed to raising proud jews, confident leaders, and accomplished learners who value excellence and prioritize community. as educators, administrators, and staff, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical…

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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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Luria Academy of Brooklyn

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…

Education

Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School

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…

Education

Valley Day School

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.

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Hebrew College

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,…

Education

Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Val

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…

Education

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

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…

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Gettysburg College

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

Education

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Humanistic Change Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 119 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/69

Grantees still filing

48/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,385,758Other$742,655Arts & Culture$67,600Human Services$44,440Education$33,716Youth Development$30,900International$26,366

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Greater Lehigh ValleyPA78.6× affinity37 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 · 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

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 Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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