· Private foundation
The Mmz 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 $10k9 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL MUSEUM INDUSTRIAL HISTORY | $1,005,500 |
| ALLENTOWN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS | $1,005,045 |
| BURN PREVENTION NETWORK | $30,000 |
| CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION | $3,600 |
| HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| BETHLEHEM FOOD COOPERATIVE | $1,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $850 |
| LOWER SAUCON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $315 |
| MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $140 |
| BAUM SCHOOL OF ART | $45 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) 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 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 +60% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 INC7× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +75%
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +22%
- ASALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BBBAPL BOOKMOBILE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ARAMERICAN RHODODENDRON SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -342%
- NCNORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA CCone 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.
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
The mission of the everhart museum of natural history, science, and art is to foster knowledge and enjoyment of natural history, science, art, and culture through a variety of exhibitions, educational programs, and events for people of all…
The mission of the Emmaus Historical Society is to collect, preserve and exhibit Emmaus artifacts, documents, histories, photographs and genealogy for display and research and to offer educational programs and events throughout the year.
Dedicated to promoting public awareness of the value of over 1,200 PA museums and historical orgs, providing valuable professional development opportunities, serving as the primary network org of musuem professionals and volunteers…
Allentown art museums mission is to collect, preserve, study and exhibit important works of art, and through them, increase the understanding, appreciation, enjoyment & interest in art and its ability to enhance and enrich the lives of the…
The historical society of montgomery county's mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the history of montgomery county, pennsylvania and to educate the public about the region's ongoing multi-faceted cultural story... creating…
To create a musical community where high quality instruction and performance opportunities are available to all.
Collects, restores, preserves, and interprets material culture, historic buildings, and history associated with crafts, trades and industries in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Founded in 1942, the American Musicological Society (AMS) exists to expand understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning, and advocacy.
Astral's mission is to empower outstanding emerging musicians to shape purposeful and sustainable careers that inspire, connect, and excite diverse audiences. in november 2024, the board voted and approved that for various reasons, the…
The mission of the chatham historical society is to inform and educate, present and future generations, about the history and culture of chatham and vicinity by collecting and preserving records of earlier generations and by exhibiting and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites and the most unlike its peers is The Seed Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 37 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF INDUSTRIAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BURN PREVENTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RHODODENDRON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHANTHI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Seed Farm ↗
- Who funds HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
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: Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Butz Foundation · Lutron Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Shaffer Family Charitable Trust · 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 Mmz 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.
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.