· Private foundation
Samuels Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWER SAUCON TWSP HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $11,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - CO COMMUNITY ACTION OF LV | $5,000 |
| BETHLEHEM BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| MORAVIAN ARCHIVES | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY ALLENTOWN | $2,000 |
| HELLERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +179%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +98%- BCBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- C(CACLV (FBO SECOND HARVEST)one grant, 2022 · $5k
- ATAPOLLO THEATREone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Seed Farm ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Johnston Inc ↗
- Who funds HELLERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samuels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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