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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 33-2265755

Stark Financial Foundation

A private foundation in Bethlehem, PA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 3 grants and $50,500 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

2 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $50,500

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $56,442

  • Tax year 2024

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $25,000

Grants paid in 2025

3 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Bethlehem Christian SchoolBethlehem, PA

    General & Unrestricted

    $25,000
  2. Life ChurchBethlehem, PA

    General & Unrestricted

    $25,000
  3. Individual

    General & Unrestricted

    $500

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $25,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Pennsylvania2 grants $50,000

Officers, directors and trustees

2 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Mark SessantaDirector Hours 1Pay $0
  • Erika SessantaDirector Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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