· Public charity
St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa
The mission of the organization is to provide compassionate, excellent quality and cost effective healthcare to the residents of the communities we serve regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay.
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.
The 84 grants below total $15,847,853 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,965,841 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,117,988 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $726k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $11,704,503 |
| ALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $460,000 |
| PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT | $315,000 |
| BETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $250,000 |
| EASTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $209,000 |
| POCONO MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $180,500 |
| NAZARETH AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $175,000 |
| ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC | $160,000 |
| EAST STROUDSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $133,500 |
| QUAKERTOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $116,200 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $110,000 |
| STROUDSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $102,500 |
| NORTHAMPTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $100,500 |
| WHITEHALL COPLAY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $96,000 |
| MORAVIAN ACADEMY | $95,000 |
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, $479k) 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 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 19 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- SCSTAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC7× · 2019–2025 · $74M · revenue +184% · 73% of their budget
- PSPARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +34% · 92% of their budget
- NCNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $470k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- WAWILSON AREA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDAone grant, 2022 · $149k · revenue -5%
- NCNorthampton County Area Community Collegeone grant, 2022 · $101k
- PAPALMERTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $90k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 154 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 STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION T/A THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BASD ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE ATHLETIC ↗
- Who funds CETRONIA AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WILSON AREA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDA ↗
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 · Ppl Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born 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 St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa 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.
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.