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NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,542 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($14,458). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$280k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$97k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Northwestern Lehigh Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

To help in the education of students at northwestern lehigh school district

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation offers grants and allocations for the advancement of educational practice

    $168,967 spentof which $168,967 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $168,967.

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 ($171k) Expenses 100 ($181k) Net assets 100 ($107k)2018 Revenue 110 ($187k) Expenses 96 ($175k) Net assets 112 ($119k)2019 Revenue 106 ($181k) Expenses 98 ($178k) Net assets 115 ($123k)2020 Revenue 97 ($166k) Expenses 95 ($173k) Net assets 109 ($116k)2021 Revenue 110 ($189k) Expenses 104 ($189k) Net assets 108 ($115k)2022 Revenue 124 ($213k) Expenses 136 ($247k) Net assets 76 ($81k)2023 Revenue 118 ($201k) Expenses 116 ($211k) Net assets 67 ($71k)2024 Revenue 124 ($213k) Expenses 121 ($219k) Net assets 60 ($64k)2025 Revenue 163 ($280k) Expenses 136 ($247k) Net assets 91 ($97k)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (136)Net assets (91)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 2021 to 2022, from $115k to $81k (−30%).

$107k
$119k
$123k
$116k
$115k
$81k
$71k
$64k
$97k
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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

98% of NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$10k
’17
$13k
’18
$3k
’19
−$7k
’20
−$388
’21
−$34k
’22
−$10k
’23
−$7k
’24
$33k
’25
4.7
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.

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Listed131515111513121515
Joined·+5+1+0+5+3+4+4+1
No longer listed·31415511
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $9k → $402.

1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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

NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

67%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% — 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

73% of NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
CT
MO

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 14%Fundraising 18%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,542 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($14,458). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,542 in grants to NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $14,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHWESTERN LEHIGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

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 5 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