· Private foundation
Shafer Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON | $8,000 |
| ALBRIGHTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $7,000 |
| EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| THE STATE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MASONIC CHARITIES FUND | $5,000 |
| MORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM | $5,000 |
| MASONIC CHARITIES FUND | $5,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOC OF BETHLEHEM | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY ZOO | $4,000 |
| ST LUKE'S SCHOOL OF NURSING | $4,000 |
| PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT | $3,000 |
| FLINT HILL FARM EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| ARTSQUEST | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +83%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +95%
- AVALBRIGHTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +259%
Funded once
- MHMASONIC HOMESone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MVMASONIC VILLAGES OF THEone grant, 2020 · $8k
- BABETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +16%
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.
Provide emergency medical services.
Public lending library
Operation of a fire company that provides residents of bethlehem township and surrounding municipalities with fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical services.
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.
The council is a key component of the emergency medical services system in central pennsylvania, serving as a vital link between local ems agencies and the pennsylvania department of health. as a independent non-profit corporation and the…
The mission of the Sewickley Public Library is to provide lifelong learning oppurtunities to the children and adults of the greater Quaker Valley Community.
Public lending library
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.
Jewish family service of the lehigh valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. our vision…
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.
See schedule oas a critical access hospital and member of the uhs healthcare system, delaware valley hospital's mission is to provide the community with the high quality, patient-centered services that are most often needed; thereby…
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN VILLAGE OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds Flint Hill Farm Educational Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUI-LIBRIUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SINFONIA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Upper Nazareth Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Waldman Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shafer Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shafer Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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