How much does William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation give?

William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $34,435 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (13%).

Who are William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedar Crest College ($208k), Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites ($108k), Lehigh Valley Health Network ($94k).

Does William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, Air Products Foundation.

Where is William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation based?

William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation is based in PA.

William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation

William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$34k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$334kArts & Culture$124kHealth$99kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$34kPhilanthropy$29kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $21k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k

$550

Median grant

States reached

$806k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HAWKEN SCHOOL	$1,000
STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$1,000
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$1,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA	$1,000
CAY CALGON LIFE HOUSE	$1,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ALLENTOWN	$1,000
LAWRENCE UPPER SCHOOL	$1,000
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUM & SITES	$550
DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER	$550
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK	$500
TURNING POINT OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$734k · 44 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$734k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+28%

Still filing today

66%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CC
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +5%
HB
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES
8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +546%
LV
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK
9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +601%

Funded once

BW
BEYOND WORDS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $3k
RH
RAINBOW HOSPITAL - UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
one grant, 2017 · $1k
MV
MACUNGIE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -51%

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.

04Its field

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.

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Delaware Valley University

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…

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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Pocono Health System

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.

—

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School

The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…

Education

Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education

Lebanon Valley College

Lebanon valley college educates students for lifelong success through exceptional undergraduate liberal-arts programs and professional graduate programs delivered in an engaging and supportive academic and co-curricular environment.…

Education

Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/40

Grantees still filing

30/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$275,975Other$241,611Arts & Culture$128,905Human Services$52,550Food & Nutrition$24,800Youth Development$16,200International$7,022

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.

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.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA54.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home