FundersPennsylvania

Kiwanis Foundation of Easton

Bangor, PA · EIN 23-6299967. Reported 35 grants totalling $67,399 to 30 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,525median grant
$67,399granted, 2020-2023
30organizations funded
23%of grantees funded again the next year
$334,026assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Kiwanis Foundation of Easton did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,525. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
12 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Easton Area Community CenterEaston, PA$12,000332023
Project of EastonEaston, PA$7,000222022
Foundation of Easton SchoolsEaston, PA$5,000112020
Greater Valley YMCA of EastonEaston, PA$5,000222023
Recovery RevolutionBangor, PA$5,000112022
Kiwanis Club of EastonEaston, PA$3,325112022
Northampton County Historical SocietyEaston, PA$3,000112022
Safe Harbor of EastonEaston, PA$3,000112023
State Theatre of EastonEaston, PA$3,000112022
Wilson Area Lincs Family CenterEaston, PA$2,650112023
Equil-LibriumNazareth, PA$2,250222023
Fop Washington Lodge #17Easton, PA$2,000112023
Pa Kiwanis FoundationHarrisburg, PA$2,000112022
Family ConnectionEaston, PA$1,525112023
Cops N KidsEaston, PA$1,500112020
Easton Area Hs TmaEaston, PA$1,500112023
Lafayette CollegeEaston, PA$1,500112020
Memorial Library of NazarethNazareth, PA$1,500112023
Family YMCA of EastonEaston, PA$1,049112020
Big Brothers Sisters of the LvAllentown, PA$500112023
Drumming for AllEaston, PA$500112023
Family Connection of EastonEaston, PA$500112020
Special Olympics Team NorthamptonEaston, PA$500112022
Cheston Elementary SchoolEaston, PA$300112023
Kolbe AcademyBethlehem, PA$250112022
Penn State Better Kids CareBethlehem, PA$250112022
Voice for ChangeEaston, PA$250112020
Volunteer Center for LvBethlehem, PA$250112023
Erie Home for Children & AdultsErie, PA$200112022
Value Me Working Hands T21Easton, PA$100112023

4 of 30 (13%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 23%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

Plus 11 grants to individuals totalling $22,020 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20208$16,799$1,500
202213$29,775$2,000
202314$20,825$1,512

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Easton, PA
$55K
Bangor, PA
$5K
Nazareth, PA
$4K
Harrisburg, PA
$2K
Bethlehem, PA
$750
Allentown, PA
$500
Erie, PA
$200

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,525. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Pennsylvania.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Kiwanis Foundation of Easton's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 130 Locke Heights Rd, Bangor, PA, 18013. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-6299967 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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