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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$102kReligion$38kRecreation & Sports$25kCommunity Improvement$13kArts & Culture$5kAnimals$5kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$532
Median grant
5
States reached
$450k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
PUSH THE ROCK$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE BETHLEHEM MOUNTED POLICE$1,000
NOELLE'S LIGHT$532
FEEDING AMERICA$100
STAR-FISH INC$100
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$100
SALVATION ARMY$50
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 8 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$154k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+141%

Still filing today

88%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • ES
    EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +25%
  • PT
    PUSH THE ROCK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • NB
    NEW BETHANY INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FE
    FAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF ALLENTOWN PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF LEHIGH VALLEY
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • SM
    SIGAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
2
Springfield Rescue Mission

The goal of the springfield rescue mission since 1892 has been to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the hungry, homeless, addicted, and poor by introducing them to christ and helping them apply the word of god to every area of their…

Human Services
3
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Life As Mission
Unclassified
5
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

6
God's Light in the Darkness Foundation
Philanthropy
7
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
8
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
9
Everything Laid Down Ministries

To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…

Religion
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Heaven's Family

Heaven's family's mission is to advance the kingdom of the lord jesus christ. we do that by strategically linking kingdom needs and opportunities with resources that the lord has entrusted to those who love him. through god-given…

Religion
12
Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission

A living legacy of john wanamaker, philly house's mission is to open their doors every day with a welcoming spirit of christian compassion, walking alongside the homeless, hungry, and hurting of philadelphia so that they may experience the…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Noelles Light Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $102,164 · EducationEAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONFAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF ALLENTOWN PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 · OtherFAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF ALLE…FAITH CHURCH — $16,500 · OtherFAITH CHURCHCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF LEHIGH VALLEY — $12,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF LEHIGH …SIGAL MUSEUM — $5,000 · OtherSIGAL MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW BETHANY INC — $3,500 · Other+10 more — $3,905 · Other+10 morePUSH THE ROCK — $24,500 · Recreation & SportsPUSH THE ROCK+1 more — $500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE BETHLEHEM MOUNTED POLICE — $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNoelles Light Inc — $2,318 · Health+1 more — $50 · HealthFeeding America — $1,100 · Food & NutritionSTAR FISH INC — $100 · Food & NutritionALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,025 · Housing & Shelter
Education$102,164Other$66,405Recreation & Sports$25,000Public Safety & Disaster$3,000Health$2,368Food & Nutrition$1,200Housing & Shelter$1,025

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLivin The Dream Ministries — $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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 EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PUSH THE ROCK
  • Who funds NEW BETHANY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BETHLEHEM MOUNTED POLICE
  • Who funds Noelles Light Inc
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Livin The Dream Ministries
  • Who funds STAR FISH INC
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds ALS Hope Foundation

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.

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

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 Niedbala Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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