· Private foundation
The Zachary Barker Chittick Foundation
Its FY2023 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNICAL STATE UNIV | $7,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS SCHOOL OF THE GREATE | $5,000 |
| SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC | $4,500 |
| CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA | $2,500 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDEN | $2,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN P | $1,000 |
| VILLAGE LIBRARY | $500 |
| SEDONA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC | $490 |
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 (FY17–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 31% 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- PSPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2017–2023 · $10k · revenue +55%
- SISedona International Film Festival & Workshop5× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +156%
- AAALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +38%
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +35%
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.
To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
Promote all art disciplines including exhibitions, dance productions, concerts, educational seminars and theatre. the organization has established a center for the arts in lebanon pennsylvania.
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
Incorporated on july 2, 1951, the allentown symphony association (asa) is the operating organization of the allentown symphony orchestra (aso)and miller symphony hall (msh). the mission of the asa is to provide a first-class orchestra and…
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
Our mission is to 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 research.
"to educate, inspire, inform, entertain and stimulate the exchange of ideas for the enrichment of the public" begins with the broadcast of pbs programs that highlight issues of national importance, continues with the production of our emmy…
The mission of the adams county library system (acls) is to connect people to opportunities that enrich their lives through the core values of stewardship, excellence and trustworthiness. the acls provides programming that centers on early…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa and the most unlike its peers is Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 SEDONA ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Sedona International Film Festival & Workshop ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN PA ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SEDONA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds SEDONA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Northern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds PBS 39 FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN SALISBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS AND CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · The Arangio Family Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · The Lehigh Gas Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Lutron 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 Zachary Barker Chittick 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.
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.