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The Brown-Daub Foundation
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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON | $51,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $30,000 |
| STATE THEATRE OF EASTON | $30,000 |
| EQUILIBRIUM | $30,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| KELLYN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| PROJECT OF EASTON | $10,000 |
| GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GLV | $10,000 |
| NCC FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| EASTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
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, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 13 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +75%
- NCNORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +3%
- STSTATE THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF LEHIGH VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $6k
- ECEASTON COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TSTHIRD STREET ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
Community development resources
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
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…
See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
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…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
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.
Shady side academy offers an exceptional pre-k through twelfth grade academic and balanced educational experience by challenging each student to realize his or her potential in a stimulating and nurturing environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Two Rivers Health & Wellness 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 86 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EQUI-LIBRIUM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Easton Development Partnership ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KELLYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds HCSC - BLOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Allentown School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENN JERSEY HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH CENTER OF EASTON PA INC ↗
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 · Air Products Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr 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 The Brown-Daub Foundation 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.
- Jespy House Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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