Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Allentown School District Foundation
Allentown School District Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,320 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($554,588). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Allentown School District Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the foundation is to encourage, promote, support, and fund positive educational experiences for students in the allentown school district.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The 2024-25 school year was ASD Foundations 16th year fulfilling its mission to encourage, promote, support and fund positive educational experiences for students in the Allentown School District (ASD). Since its founding in June 2009, the organization has raised over $10 million dollars in support of enriching, hands-on programming that has helped close to 72,000 students grow academically, creatively and socially.Over the past year, more than 9,000 ASD students in Pre-K through Grade 12 have benefited from one or more of the following ASD Foundation-supported programs made possible by gifts and grants from individuals, businesses, corporations, trusts and other foundations: Literacy and Civic Engagement: Reading volunteers, student-authored books, reward-based reading programs and National History Day opportunities STEAM Enrichment: Science fairs, Multidisciplinary Project Expositions and STEAM Club Jr. Arts & Performance: Visual art residencies, music instruction, Latin dance and a Broadway trip Scholarships & Innovation: Graduating senior scholarships and Teacher Innovation Grants
$364,128 spent$450,657 earned by the program100% of program spendingEndowed, annual(expendable) and one-time scholarhsips are financial stipends awarded by the allentown school distirct foundation(asdf)to graduation students to pay for post-secondary education. While the scholarship is awarded to the student, the funds are paid by the asdf directly to the post-secondary institution to be credited to the student's account. To insure awardability, no more than two criteria beyond high school designation are used in determining scholarship receipients may be set. The selection process is at the discretion of the building principal. While donors may determine eligibility criteria, donors may not be involved in the selection of individual scholarship recipients. The asf nor its board members may be involved in any selection process. A minimum of $10,000 in gift(s) is required for a contribution to be considered an endowed scholarship.
The foundation organizes and runs programs within district schools, and also provides funding for programming within the schools. During the 2024-2025 school year, flexible grants were given to the four middle schools and dieruff and allen high schools to support choral and instrumental music, theatre, poetry, and dance programs. The asdf funded the middle school dance lessons and competition and the strings program at raub ms, a literacy volunteer program, national history day, science fair, the renaissance art programs, lcti summer camps, and teacher innovation grants.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $364,128.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $874k to $1.3M (+44%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Allentown School District Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $258k → $102k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Allentown School District Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Allentown School District Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Allentown School District Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 52% · 2019 78% · 2020 31% · 2021 56% · 2022 21% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of Allentown School District Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of Allentown School District Foundation's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Allentown School District Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Allentown School District Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Allentown School District · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Allentown School District Foundation?
- Allentown School District Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,619,320 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($554,588). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Allentown School District Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,619,320 in grants to Allentown School District Foundation, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Allentown School District Foundation?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $554,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Allentown School District Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing