· Public charity
United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley
We fight for the health, safety and education of every person in the greater lehigh valley.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k102 grants · $715k
- $10k–50k178 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k86 grants · $8.9M
- $250k+12 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVAGGIO ACADEMY | $1,951,500 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $1,106,954 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC | $1,103,540 |
| DA VINCI SCIENCE CENTER | $910,690 |
| ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL | $545,209 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $446,624 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $424,265 |
| PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS | $302,733 |
| ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $285,000 |
| ARTSQUEST | $280,756 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $274,017 |
| COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS | $269,263 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $222,000 |
| NEW BETHANY INC | $220,753 |
| WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY | $200,914 |
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, $22.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +21% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
401 repeat relationships — 295 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $957k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +107% · 27% of their budget
- SASALVAGGIO ACADEMY3× · 2022–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +19% · 50% of their budget
- VYVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +92%
Funded once
- POPROJECT OF EASTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $99k · revenue +44%
- WIWATERFORD INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $96k · revenue -22%
- COCITY OF BETHLEHEMone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Air Products Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
470 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. 470 of the 611 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds SALVAGGIO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds VNA OF ST LUKE'S - HOME HEALTHHOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Butz 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 United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% 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.