Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA · EIN 24-0795445. Reported 165 grants totalling $19.7M to 71 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Lehigh University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $48,486. Half of what it reported fell between $17,920 and $121,237; the smallest was $5,516 and the largest $1,174,601. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $4,409,133 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $1,782,228 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bethlehem Economic Development Corp | Bethlehem, PA | $1,400,564 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,226,221 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $1,220,610 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $1,020,104 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas | Kansas City, KS | $604,185 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $539,203 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $419,176 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Teachers College Columbia University | New York, NY | $376,446 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $370,628 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $369,126 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $365,847 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| City of Bethlehem | Bethlehem, PA | $360,954 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $322,284 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $318,534 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida State University | Tallahassee, FL | $315,085 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $285,919 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $277,782 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | Baltimore, MD | $217,591 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $213,411 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $208,741 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $201,161 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Texas | Austin, TX | $192,586 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Chicago, IL | $190,235 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $183,699 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $174,165 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $167,038 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley | Bethlehem, PA | $154,010 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| State of West Virginia | Morgantown, WV | $142,783 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $125,315 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Texas A&m | College Station, TX | $117,852 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wright State University | Dayton, OH | $108,296 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Houston System | Houston, TX | $105,597 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $89,948 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Butler Hospital | Providence, RI | $86,493 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Artsquest | Bethlehem, PA | $86,021 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of Wisconsin System | Milwaukee, WI | $82,838 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $66,717 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology | Allentown, PA | $64,731 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $63,771 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | Kansas City, MO | $62,995 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Commonwealth University of Pa | Lock Haven, PA | $57,005 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Arlington | Arlington, TX | $52,698 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $48,441 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $47,307 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $44,188 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Western Kentucky University | Bowling Green, KY | $30,389 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Institute of Gas Technology | Des Plaines, IL | $30,225 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation | Bethlehem, PA | $29,737 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvey Mudd College | Claremont, CA | $29,695 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Toledo | Cleveland, OH | $28,103 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bucknell University | Lewisburg, PA | $27,252 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Montana State University | Bozeman, MT | $21,523 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bhutanese Community of Central Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $20,520 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Promise Neighborhoods of Lehigh Valley | Allentown, PA | $19,462 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnson County Community College | Overland Park, KS | $15,125 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lafayette College | Easton, PA | $15,006 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $14,781 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA | $13,201 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $12,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $12,026 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM | $10,709 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Lukes Health Network Inc | Allentown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethlehem Area School District | Bethlehem, PA | $9,662 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $8,380 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Missouri | Kansas City, MO | $6,526 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pennsylvania State University | State College, PA | $6,130 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $5,979 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce | Easton, PA | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southside Film Institute | Bethlehem, PA | $5,516 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
45 of 71 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 41 of 71 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $2,927,320 | $33,383 |
| 2021 | 42 | $4,686,360 | $54,833 |
| 2022 | 44 | $5,076,570 | $48,470 |
| 2023 | 47 | $7,037,859 | $52,050 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
37% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $48,486 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lehigh University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 47 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 306 South New Street 451 Suite 451, Bethlehem, PA, 18015.
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