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Zellner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LV | $13,750 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $4,275 |
| SALFID RESCUE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WHITEHOUSE GUILD | $300 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOC | $250 |
| LOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION | $250 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY LEHIGH VALLEY | $200 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY3× · 2020–2022 · $43k · revenue +67%
- KUKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +57%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF LEHIGH VALLEYone grant, 2017 · $13k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SLSOUTHERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
American lebanese syrian associated charities, inc. (alsac) was founded in 1957 and exists solely to raise funds and build awareness to sustain and grow the mission of st. jude children's research hospital, inc. to advance cures, and means…
Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
The mission of the organization is to provide compassionate, excellent quality and cost effective healthcare to the residents of the communities we serve regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. the…
Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…
We started the karli short better tomorrow scholarship fund to provide financial security to students who are grappling with the fallout from gun violence.
At levis legacy, our mission is clear to serve and support families facing the daunting reality of chds, along with the dedicated medical professionals who stand by their side. our mission is not just to weather the storm with them but to…
Kind to kids foundation provides life-changing education and essential support services to children and youth in foster care during some of the most difficult times in their lives. through our signature programs--including ugrad academy,…
Giving hope and help to teens and their families after a cancer diagnosis. in honor of jordyn myers.
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salfid Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 37 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds THE FIVE STAR HEART PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds BETTY LOUS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SALFID RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEABLE KINGDOM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY LEHIGH VALLEY AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL 34 ↗
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 · Ppl Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Zellner Family 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.
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