Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $125k
- Net assets
- $64M
What Ben Franklin Technology Partners Ne Pa does
Mission
Our mission is to promote, sustain and invest in the transformation of our regional economy through innovation and partnering. We build long-term relationships with our clients by applying expertise, creativity, and focused resources to address business challenges. As the commonwealth's technology leader, we leverage our credibility and distinctiveness to promote high-value business growth and economic development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Business and Technical Assistance Projects - Companies are linked with universities, funding and other resources to help them prosper through innovation. The strategy includes developing early-stage, technology-oriented companies and helping established manufacturers creatively apply new technology and business practices.
$5,018,490 spentof which $285,899 as grants$376,466 earned by the program50% of program spendingTechnology Infrastructure Activities - Promoting an innovative community-wide infrastructure that fosters a favorable business environment for high-growth companies. Ben Franklin Technology Partners of NEPA inaugurated one of the first business incubators in the nation in 1983 and managed and developed its award-winning incubator to be among the best. In 2007, BFTP/NEP relocated its original incubator across the street on Lehigh University's Mountaintop Campus to Ben Franklin TechVentures, a former Bethlehem Steel laboratory. The National Business Incubation Association named Ben Franklin TechVentures the 2012 National Incubator of the Year, a remarkable repeat of Ben Franklin's 2001 honor. Ben Franklin TechVentures brings together entrepreneurs, Ben Franklin staff, and Lehigh faculty and students to accelerate the growth of the region's technology economy. In 2010, the Partners purchased the Bloomsburg Innovation Center located in Bloomsburg, PA.
$4,987,215 spentof which $82,500 as grants$1,170,310 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,005,705.
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 2020 to 2021, from $58M to $65M (+12%).
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: 2017 76% · 2018 41% · 2019 55% · 2020 67% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 2023 67% · 2024 67% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Angelo J Valletta
CEO/President
Board chair
Jan Heller
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $110k → $15k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA’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
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $484k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$484k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 2 related entities
- Lehigh University · exempt
- Manufacturers Resource Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA?
- BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($110,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $125,000 in grants to BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA.
- Who is the largest funder of BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA?
- LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS NE PA 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 3 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