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The Niedbala Family 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$532
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$450k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The Niedbala Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$14k38%
FY20237$27k43%
FY20228$22k38%
FY20216$26k50%
FY20208$29k63%
FY20194$34k25%
FY20182$17k50%
FY20176$32kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$102kReligion$38kRecreation & Sports$25kCommunity Improvement$13kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Stroudsburg University Foundation$102,16480%
Push the Rock$24,50070%
Faith Evangelical Free Church of Allentown Pennsylvania$20,0001n/a
Faith Church$16,5002n/a
New Bethany Inc$3,50040%
Friends of the Bethlehem Mounted Police$3,00031%
Noelles Light Inc$2,31841%
Feeding America$1,10020%
Allentown Rescue Mission Inc$1,02520%
Livin The Dream Ministries$50010%
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All grantees of The Niedbala Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Stroudsburg University Foundation$102,16480%
Push the Rock$24,50070%
Faith Evangelical Free Church of Allentown Pennsylvania$20,0001n/a
Faith Church$16,5002n/a
New Bethany Inc$3,50040%
Friends of the Bethlehem Mounted Police$3,00031%
Noelles Light Inc$2,31841%
Feeding America$1,10020%
Allentown Rescue Mission Inc$1,02520%
Livin The Dream Ministries$50010%
Samaritan's Purse$50010%
Bedrock Church Lynchburg$2001n/a
Star Fish Inc$10010%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$10010%
ALS Hope Foundation$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Niedbala Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Stroudsburg University Foundation: $102,164 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPush the Rock: $24,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetNew Bethany Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Bethlehem Mounted Police: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNoelles Light Inc: $2,318 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAllentown Rescue Mission Inc: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLivin The Dream Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStar Fish Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS Hope Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Niedbala Family Foundation

How much does The Niedbala Family Foundation give?
The Niedbala Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $14,382 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Niedbala Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Religion (19%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are The Niedbala Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: East Stroudsburg University Foundation ($102k), Push the Rock ($25k), Faith Evangelical Free Church of Allentown Pennsylvania ($20k).
Does The Niedbala Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Niedbala Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Niedbala Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The Niedbala Family Foundation based?
The Niedbala Family Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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