· Private foundation
Ppl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k180 grants · $563k
- $10k–50k96 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $3,108,912 |
| UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND | $498,533 |
| LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| ARTSQUEST | $352,200 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $88,950 |
| GREATER SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY | $73,419 |
| CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN RI FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| MCAULEY CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| DOWNCITY DESIGN | $25,000 |
| GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA | $24,000 |
| SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY | $20,899 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA | $20,867 |
| UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY | $20,117 |
| CEDAR CREST COLLEGE | $20,100 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $858k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
518 repeat relationships — 189 still active in FY2025, 329 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $567k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY7× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +179%
- AARTSQUEST7× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +98%
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY9× · 2017–2025 · $281k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- OHOPERATION HELP PPL - ALLENTOWN PAone grant, 2022 · $500k
- OHOPERATION HELPone grant, 2020 · $500k
- SHSUSQUEHANNA HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educational Opportunity Centers of Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is The Chicken Coop Theatre Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
762 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 762 of the 1,235 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER HAZLETON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds LYCOMING COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THE BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds POCONO MOUNTAINS UNITED WAY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Air Products Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Essa Bank & Trust Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Allone Charities · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ppl Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Ppl Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.