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Waldman Family Charitable Trust
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
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 $10k83 grants · $140k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHAMPTON COMM COLL FDN | $35,000 |
| ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| BEVERLY HALL CORP | $15,000 |
| AFLFC CO CAROLE ROSENBERG | $14,500 |
| BUCKINGHAM FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SAMARITANS OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NORWESCAP | $10,000 |
| MAI KALANI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHABAD OF HUNTERDON COUNTY | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NEW JERSEY | $4,000 |
| CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS | $4,000 |
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, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
106 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- AAALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $382k · revenue +67%
- NNNORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +46%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL7× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -5%
- SCSMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PCPEPPERDINE CARUSO SCHOOL OF LAWone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts). 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 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 148 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 ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PERKIOMEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COPPER BRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds AXYS ASSOC FOR X AND Y CHROMOSOME VARIATIONS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOYLESTOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIXBY & ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EASTON CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SEVEN STORIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LVEDC) ↗
- Who funds HARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE UNDERFASHION CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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 · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Bbla Foundation Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Penn Community Bank Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Foundations Community Partnership · Leona Gruber Charitable Trust
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 Waldman Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Northwest New Jersey Community Action Program Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% 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.
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