· Private foundation
The Paul E & Shirley U Lehman Family 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE PAUL E & SHIRLEY U LEHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKLIN COUNTY SUNDY SCHOOL ASSN | $8,617 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,400 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP | $2,400 |
| PREGNANCY MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| CAMP JOY EL MINISTRIES | $2,400 |
| PA STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL AS | $2,000 |
| WOMEN IN NEED | $1,200 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- PMPREGNANCY MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +39%
- WIWOMEN IN NEED INC6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%
- THTHE HOUSE OF GRACE4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- DCDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SHS HAMILTON ELEMENTRY PTOone grant, 2024 · $3k
- DMDELLVIEW MUSIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
To engage in worship services as a christian church - twice a week prayer service - once a week. members and friends receive a deeper understanding of god and the holy bible. we minister to the poor, pray for the sick and counsel with…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
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.
The mission of choice books of pennsylvania is to share the good news of jesus christ in the general marketplace through a large selection of practical, inspirational and wholesome reading materials.
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Preach gospel to the faithful and spread the gospel to those who belief and the unbelief with a view to win souls for the kingdom of god.
As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
West african mercy ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization that works in ghana, west africa. our mission is to glorify god and love jesus through mercy ministry. we see this happening as we contagiously champion compassionate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Franklin County and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 45 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 CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds REINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
- Who funds FORT LOUDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HERE'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEABLE FEAST INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: McCleary Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Paul E & Shirley U Lehman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% 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.