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LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,553,086 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$2.6M
Net assets
$31M
13/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation does

Mission

Our visionthe Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation will provide the resources necessary to support the needs of the community college and its students.our missionthe Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation generates the philanthropic resources to support the community college's mission, programs, and capital projects that help turn student aspirations into reality through education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our continued goal is to serve the best interest of our students and to improve their chances for success through encouraging college readiness; developing school district, workforce, and community partners; broadening the understanding and application of best practices in enrollment management; fostering student learning, student development, academic success, and persistence to goal attainment; ensuring a diverse and inclusive environment to facilitate student learning and engagement; and acting responsibly and ethically in the stewardship and development of institutional resources.the Lehigh Carbon Community College Foundation provides financial support as follows annually: grants: annual operating student scholarships grants for program support endowments services for students with disabilities

    $1,386,642 spentof which $1,386,642 as grants$540,658 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,386,642.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 117 ($2.3M) Expenses 110 ($1.2M) Net assets 108 ($19M)2019 Revenue 94 ($1.9M) Expenses 145 ($1.6M) Net assets 111 ($19M)2020 Revenue 104 ($2.1M) Expenses 98 ($1.1M) Net assets 115 ($20M)2021 Revenue 250 ($5.0M) Expenses 234 ($2.5M) Net assets 149 ($26M)2022 Revenue 140 ($2.8M) Expenses 99 ($1.1M) Net assets 133 ($23M)2023 Revenue 116 ($2.3M) Expenses 156 ($1.7M) Net assets 144 ($25M)2024 Revenue 97 ($1.9M) Expenses 142 ($1.5M) Net assets 157 ($27M)2025 Revenue 136 ($2.7M) Expenses 138 ($1.5M) Net assets 175 ($31M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (138)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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 $21M to $27M (+30%).

$18M
$20M
$20M
$21M
$27M
$24M
$28M
$31M
$34M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

19% of LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$933k
’17
$1.2M
’18
$320k
’19
$1.0M
’20
$2.5M
’21
$1.7M
’22
$653k
’23
$410k
’24
$1.3M
’25
4.3
months of
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

Richard Christ

Executive director

Board chair

Jill Hewes

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed262325172121192224
Joined·+0+6+0+5+0+1+6+4
No longer listed·34810332
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose $110k → $230k.

4 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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

LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

29% 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 LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

20%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 40% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 36% · 2022 49% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.

“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

39% of LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
NJ
MO
DE
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $552k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

34%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lehigh Carbon Community College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,553,086 to it, the largest being HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE ($500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,553,086 in grants to LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
HARRY C TREXLER ESTATE is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEHIGH CARBON COMMUNITY COLLEGE 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 26 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