Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC
LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,152 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Lehigh Valley Amateur Astronomical Society Inc does
Mission
To encourage and promote interest in the study of astronomy and its allied subjects from the amateur standpoint. To provide, furnish, equip, and maintain a meeting place and observatory.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To encourage and promote interest in the study of astronomy and its allied subjects from the amateur standpoint. To provide, furnish, equip, and maintain a meeting place and observatory.
$2,825 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,825.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $855 → $49.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. 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 VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
35% 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 VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402 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.
Organizations like LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC?
- LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,152 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,152 in grants to LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEHIGH VALLEY AMATEUR ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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