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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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$74MEducation$15MRecreation & Sports$943kPublic Benefit$649kHuman Services$526kCommunity Improvement$216kPublic Safety & Disaster$201kYouth Development$171kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 84 grants below total $15,847,853, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,965,841 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,117,988 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $726k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $13M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT OF EASTON INC: $20k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $105k → 11%THE HISPANIC CENTER OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $63k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $57k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $56k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $56k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $55k → 11%HISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $6k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%KELLYN FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92M · 87 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
46

Total granted

$92M
$823k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+3%

Still filing today

46%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $74M · revenue +184% · 73% of their budget
  • PS
    PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +34% · 92% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $470k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WA
    WILSON AREA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDA
    one grant, 2022 · $149k · revenue -5%
  • NC
    Northampton County Area Community College
    one grant, 2022 · $101k
  • PA
    PALMERTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
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.

1
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to 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 research.

Health
2
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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3
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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4
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
5
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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6
Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono

Our mission is who we are and what we do: to provide world class care close to home. our vision is what we aim for to best serve our community: to build a healthier community.

Health
7
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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8
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
9
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Lebanon Pennsylvania

The good samaritan hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the overall health of the community.

Health
10
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
11
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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12
Gettysburg College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
46/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $73,856,501 · HealthSTAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC+11 more: $330,597 · HealthALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $982,730 · OtherALLENTOWN SCHOOL …THE BOROUGH OF FOUNTAIN HILL: $966,854 · OtherTHE BOROUGH OF FO…EASTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $939,805 · OtherEASTON AREA SCHOO…BETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $862,143 · OtherBETHLEHEM AREA SC…POCONO MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $799,453 · OtherPOCONO MOUNTAIN S…NAZARETH AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $714,511 · OtherEAST STROUDSBURG AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $714,000 · OtherWHITEHALL COPLAY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $648,750 · Other+96 more: $7,652,347 · Other+96 morePARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,145,165 · EducationNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $470,370 · EducationDESALES UNIVERSITY: $394,493 · EducationBETHLEHEM AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION T/A THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BASD: $215,000 · EducationWILSON AREA PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDA: $148,750 · Education+9 more: $234,337 · EducationATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $58,400 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono: $45,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $16,462 · Youth DevelopmentHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $397,705 · Human ServicesKELLYN FOUNDATION: $61,250 · Human ServicesPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesKEYSTONE ATHLETIC: $157,500 · Recreation & SportsLEHIGH VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsLEHIGH VALLEY YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE I: $77,500 · Recreation & SportsTHUNDER YOUTH HOCKEY INC: $39,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIVE STAR HEART PROJECT CORP: $37,250 · Recreation & SportsBETHLEHEM SOCCER CLUB: $22,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $36,500 · Recreation & SportsMICHAEL ANN & SAQUON BARKLEY HOPE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 · PhilanthropyCARVE FOR CANCER: $30,150 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $29,495 · PhilanthropyPEDRO MARTINEZ FOUNDATION: $5,200 · Philanthropy
Health$74,187,098Other$14,280,593Education$2,608,115Youth Development$569,862Human Services$494,955Recreation & Sports$450,250Philanthropy$152,345

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAR COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $73,856,501 over 7y, 73% of budgetPARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,145,165 over 4y, 92% of budgetNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $470,370 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $421,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHISPANIC CENTER LEHIGH VALLEY: $397,705 over 7y, 11% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $394,493 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMORAVIAN UNIVERSITY: $320,648 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBETHLEHEM AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION T/A THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BASD: $215,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $186,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKEYSTONE ATHLETIC: $157,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCETRONIA AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $115,055 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $96,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ATHLETIC CLUB: $80,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $77,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE I: $77,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $76,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ROAD RUNNERS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $65,137 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: $61,350 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetKELLYN FOUNDATION: $61,250 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN INC: $60,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $58,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMICHAEL ANN & SAQUON BARKLEY HOPE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $48,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Lehigh Valley & Pocono: $45,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBETHLEHEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $42,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTREATMENT TRENDS INC: $41,883 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHUNDER YOUTH HOCKEY INC: $39,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIVE STAR HEART PROJECT CORP: $37,250 over 3y, 50% of budgetCARVE FOR CANCER: $30,150 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $29,495 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAllentown School District Foundation: $27,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LVEDC): $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBETHLEHEM SOCCER CLUB: $22,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNAZARETH BLUE EAGLE EDUCATION FDTN: $20,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetPROJECT OF EASTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $16,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIANSHIP SUPPORT AGENCY INC: $16,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY ACADEMY REGIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIAKON CHILD FAMILY & COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREGORY W MOYER DEFIBRILLATOR FUND INC: $14,375 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $13,050 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 ValleyPA66.8× affinity34 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 · 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

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 St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    24report 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
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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