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The Lehigh Gas Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,600 |
| WOMEN'S 5K CLASSIC INC | $12,865 |
| ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $10,600 |
| ASD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NAFASI PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| PRODUCT SOLUTIONS UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| ST KATHARINE OF SIENA ANNUAL FUND | $7,750 |
| HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITE | $7,500 |
| AUGUSTINIAN FUND | $6,750 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL | $5,250 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SISTERS IN CHRIST | $5,000 |
| BLOOM | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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 (FY17–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
55 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- W5WOMEN'S 5K CLASSIC8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +8%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +33%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $48k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AFAPPLEGREEN FL LLCone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MHMOUNTAIN HAWKS SPORTS PROPERTIESone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Health Partners Community Health Center and the most unlike its peers is CrossAmerica Partners 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 146 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.
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- Who funds NAFASI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds JERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Rider-Pool Foundation · The Topper Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · John a and Margaret Post 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 Lehigh Gas 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.
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% 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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