· Private foundation
William H and Patti a Lehr 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.
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 $10k22 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $13,000 |
| MARVINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,810 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| WEISENBERG VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY | $2,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ALLENTOWN | $1,000 |
| LAWRENCE UPPER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,000 |
| CAY CALGON LIFE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM & SITES | $550 |
| DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER | $550 |
| NEW BETHANY MINISTRIES | $500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $500 |
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, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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 +60% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CCCEDAR CREST COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +5%
- HBHISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +546%
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +601%
Funded once
- BWBEYOND WORDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- RHRAINBOW HOSPITAL - UNIVERSITY HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MVMACUNGIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -51%
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 The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Macungie Volunteer Fire Department. 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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 60 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 CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEHIGH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds CAY GALGON LIFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANTHONY'S YOUTH CENTER OF EASTON PA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON INC ↗
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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Butz Foundation · The Rider-Pool 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 William H and Patti a Lehr 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.