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The Paul E & Shirley U Lehman Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$57kReligion$54kHuman Services$42kYouth Development$8kFood & Nutrition$7kArts & Culture$6kCommunity Improvement$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$81k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLIN COUNTY SUNDY SCHOOL ASSN$8,617
PREGNANCY MINISTRIES$2,400
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP$2,400
SALVATION ARMY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%THE HOUSE OF GRACE: $1k → 9%THE HOUSE OF GRACE: $1k → 9%THE HOUSE OF GRACE: $1k → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $800 → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $550 → 9%PREGNANCY MINISTRIES: $100 → 9%THE HOUSE OF GRACE: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
PA
VA
MD
TN
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 29 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
16

Total granted

$178k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

41%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PM
    PREGNANCY MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +39%
  • WI
    WOMEN IN NEED INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • TH
    THE HOUSE OF GRACE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • DC
    DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    S HAMILTON ELEMENTRY PTO
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • DM
    DELLVIEW MUSIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jesus Ministries International

Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.

Religion
2
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
3
Liberty in Jesus Ministries

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…

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4
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
5
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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6
Churches in Missions Inc

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...

Human Services
7
Faithbytheword Incorporated

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…

Human Services
8
Choice Books of Pennsylvania Inc

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.

—
9
Face to Faith Ministry

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,…

Religion
10
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

—
11
Christ the Truth Ministries Inc

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.

Religion
12
House of Prayer for All Nations

Church ministry

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Franklin County; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANKLIN COUNTY SUNDY SCHOOL ASSN: $40,646 · OtherFRANKLIN COUNTY SUNDY SCHOOL ASSNCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $16,600 · OtherCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INCCAMP JOY EL MINISTRIES: $14,700 · OtherCAMP JOY EL MINISTRIESSALVATION ARMY: $12,700 · OtherSALVATION ARMYPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $11,529 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYPA STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL AS: $8,950 · OtherPA STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASMEALS ON WHEELS: $6,000 · OtherOUT OF SIGHT MINISTRIES: $5,647 · Other+28 more: $41,966 · Other+28 morePREGNANCY MINISTRIES INC: $14,750 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY …THE HOUSE OF GRACE: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE …DOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY: $3,700 · PhilanthropyTOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFORT LOUDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureREINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,700 · Civil Rights
Other$158,738Human Services$18,750Community Improvement$5,000Philanthropy$3,700Arts & Culture$3,100Youth Development$2,500Civil Rights$1,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $16,600 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPREGNANCY MINISTRIES INC: $14,750 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC: $5,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN CHAMBERSBURG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF GRACE: $4,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY: $3,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREINS OF RHYTHM RIDING & HORSEMANSHIP INCR: $2,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORT LOUDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLEASANT HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS BIBLE MINISTRIES INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHERE'S HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMOVEABLE FEAST INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 TOTEM POLE PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds FORT LOUDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLEASANT HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

McCleary Family Found…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
McCleary Family FoundationPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Paul E & Shirley U Lehman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul E & Shirley U Lehman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Moveable Feast Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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