· Private foundation
The Kiwanis Foundation of Allentown
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DaVinci Science Center | $3,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Allentown | $1,500 |
| Lehigh County Historical Society | $1,500 |
| Visiting Nurse Asso of St Lukes | $1,150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Salvation Army Allentown Corp | $1,000 |
| Community Action Lehigh Valley | $1,000 |
| Pratyush Sinha Foundation | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Community Music School | $1,000 |
| SATORI | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LCLEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +51%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +27%
- PSPRATYUSH SINHA FOUNDATION D/B/A MINDFUL CHILD INITIATIVE5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- KIKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -6%
- DSDIVENCI SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $3k
- PBPERSONALIZED BOOKS FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
To eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…
To empower and strengthen people of all ages, with a focus on children and youth, to enhance the quality of their lives through learning and service.
To provide, in cooperation with public and private schools, equitable access to the highest quality musical opportunities and to foster a life- long love of music for dedicated young musicians. ckyo enriches the lives of its student…
The avymca provides community based opportunities to individuals, regardless of ability to pay by putting christian values/principles into practice through facilities/wellness programs/activities that build healthy spirit/mind/ and body.
After school education and recreation programs for middle school students at kennett middle school in kennett square, pa.
The mission of the community action development corporation of the lehigh valley is to elevate and empower residents by actively promoting neighborhood revitalization which strengthens the neighborhood economy, improves the quality of life…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
The mission of the family health council of central pennsylvania, inc. (fhccp) is to build and support community-based health networks through partnerships, education, advocacy, and effective resource allocation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Satori Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 79 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 LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SATORI LTD ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATYUSH SINHA FOUNDATION D/B/A MINDFUL CHILD INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON WHEELS 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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Air Products Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Rider-Pool 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 Kiwanis Foundation of Allentown 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.
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