How much does The Gadomski Foundation give?

The Gadomski Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Gadomski Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), Arts & Culture (8%), Science & Tech (5%).

Who are The Gadomski Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Allentown Art Museum ($133k), Purdue Research Foundation ($101k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc ($40k).

Does The Gadomski Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Gadomski Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Gadomski Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Ppl Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley.

Where is The Gadomski Foundation based?

The Gadomski Foundation is based in PA.

The Gadomski Foundation

The Gadomski Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Gadomski Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$500

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$154kScience & Tech$101kReligion$73kHealth$48kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$7kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$7k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$374k · 17 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$374k

$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+39%

Still filing today

47%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

AA
ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM
5× · 2017–2022 · $133k · revenue +67%
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +12%
PS
PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
2× · 2018–2019 · $8k · revenue +47%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY
one grant, 2017 · $125k
AO
AUXILIARY OF ST LUKES
one grant, 2019 · $14k
AB
ASSUMPTION BVM CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $13k

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.

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Pittsburgh Symphony Inc

It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.

Arts & Culture

The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc

See schedule o.the mission of the new york philharmonic encompasses the following key attributes:(1) to maintain and foster an interest in the enjoyment of music and musical affairs; (2) to inculcate an interest in symphonic music among…

Arts & Culture

Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

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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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

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

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.

—

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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Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsquest; the most unlike its peers is Progeria Research Foundation Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

16/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,321,250Other$297,264Arts & Culture$147,909Education$102,250Health$7,000International$2,000Human Services$1,000

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.

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.

Lehigh Valley Community FoundationPA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Butz Foundation

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 The Gadomski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gadomski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home