· Private foundation
The Topper Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LV | $960,000 |
| THE SCHOOL SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS | $560,000 |
| PROVINCE OF OUR MOTHER | $325,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $142,500 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGELS | $74,000 |
| TRINITY HALL | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL OF ANGELS | $45,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL | $41,702 |
| REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY | $29,000 |
| ASSUMPTION CHURCH | $27,500 |
| STAR COMMUNITY HEALTH | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SECOND ROUND FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CAY GALGON LIFE HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $966k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +50%
- DUDESALES UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2023 · $243k · revenue +37%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK4× · 2017–2020 · $211k · revenue +601%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $35k
- BABISHOPS ANNUAL APPEALone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 143 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 VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Trinity Hall ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REGINA ANGELORUM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAY GALGON LIFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE LEHIGH GAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAFASI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds International OCD Foundation Inc ↗
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · The Frank J Ryan and Jane E Ryan Family Foundation · Salvaggio Family Foundation · The Lehigh Gas Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Topper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Topper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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