· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BETHLEHEM FOOD COOPERATIVE | $1,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS | $1,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL | $850 |
| LOWER SAUCON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $315 |
| MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $140 |
| BAUM SCHOOL OF ART | $45 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mmz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mmz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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