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Seruga R Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Youth Development$57kArts & Culture$37kHuman Services$35kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$31kCommunity Improvement$25kReligion$17kCivil Rights$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$745k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD CONNECT CO$25,000
RIVER CROSSING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO$5,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN$5,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY$3,000
MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $7k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $4k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT: $1k → 11%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $3k → 11%BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $5k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $5k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS INC: $4k → 11%CENTER FOR VISION LOSS INC: $3k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $3k → 11%LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTERS INC: $3k → 11%VIA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$175k · 21 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
25

Total granted

$175k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

71%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $16k · revenue +25%
  • YA
    YWCA ALLENTOWN
    4× · 2018–2022 · $15k · revenue +36%
  • AA
    ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
    4× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • VO
    Via of the Lehigh Valley Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue -1%
  • S
    SELFLV
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -47%
  • BF
    BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…

Community Improvement
3
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
4
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
5
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
6
Lehigh Valley Health Network

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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7
Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living Inc

Lehigh valley center for independent living empowers persons with all types of disabilities to achieve independence in an inclusive community.

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8
Family Health Council of Central Pa Inc

The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.

Health
9
Lch Health and Community Services

LCH Health and Community Services (LCH) mission is to improve patient health and wellbeing through innovative delivery of high-quality whole-person care. Our vision is a community in which all people have access to the health care they…

Human Services
10
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
11
Allegheny Lutheran Social Ministries Inc

To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.

Human Services
12
The Learning Community of Pennsylvania

To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Satori Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%12%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%20%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
9%
170/1,801

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN — $14,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWNGREATER VALLEY YOUNG MENS — $12,000 · OtherGREATER VALLEY YOUNG MENSTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES — $9,000 · OtherTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHESCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $9,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY I…CROSSROADS MENTORING PROGRAM — $7,500 · OtherCROSSROADS MENTORING PROGRAMLEHIGH VALLEY ITALIAN AMERICAN BAND — $6,000 · OtherMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS — $5,000 · OtherRIVER CROSSING YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO — $5,000 · OtherGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherCEDAR CREST COLLEGE — $5,000 · OtherLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,970 · Other+16 more — $41,222 · Other+16 moreLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN…YWCA ALLENTOWN — $15,250 · Human ServicesYWCA ALLENTOWNVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc — $7,000 · Human ServicesVia of the Lehigh Vall…SIGHTS FOR HOPE — $6,918 · Human ServicesSIGHTS FOR HOPEBIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesBIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURC…MOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT — $4,000 · Human ServicesMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUP…FAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOOD CONNECT CO — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD CONNECT…Flint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc — $5,000 · Food & NutritionFlint Hill F…ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM — $13,000 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN A…ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $11,500 · Arts & CultureALLENTOWN S…SATORI LTD — $3,750 · Arts & CultureSATORI LTDHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $4,000 · HealthPHOEBE-DEVITT HOMES — $3,390 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE — $3,000 · HealthMaternity Care Coalition — $3,000 · HealthSELFLV — $5,000 · Community ImprovementRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$124,692Human Services$57,168Food & Nutrition$30,000Arts & Culture$29,250Youth Development$20,500Health$13,390Community Improvement$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA ALLENTOWN — $15,250 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM — $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS — $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEHIGH CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVia of the Lehigh Valley Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGHTS FOR HOPE — $6,918 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $5,970 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFlint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSELFLV — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH HOMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS OFFERING MOMS SUPPORT — $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSATORI LTD — $3,750 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPHOEBE-DEVITT HOMES — $3,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BETHANY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIPPLE COMMUNITY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRADBURY-SULLIVAN LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Harry C Trexler EstateLehigh Valley Communi…United Way of the Gre…Ppl FoundationAir Products Foundati…The Century Fund TrustJohn a and Margaret P…Sylvia Perkin Perpetu…Martin Guitar Charita…Leona Gruber Charitab…The Rider-Pool Founda…The Donald B and Doro…
Harry C Trexler EstatePA51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Leona Gruber Charitable Trust · The Rider-Pool Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation

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 Seruga R Char 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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