· Private foundation
Sylk Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYCOMING COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,800 |
| CHILDRENS CRISIS TREATMENT CTR | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PA CANCER CTR | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HAR ZION TEMPLE | $4,000 |
| PA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | $3,000 |
| BULL STONE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| WOODMERE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MAGUIRE ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| DO-GOODERS | $700 |
| FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL | $250 |
| MORRIS ARBORETUM | $150 |
| MERION CIVIC ASSN | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLYCOMING COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +11%
- CCCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +56%
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- BFBARNES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue ×17
- NCNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +182%
- MKMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +490%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds VICTOR D'AMICO INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Erlbaum Family Foundation · Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Snider Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sylk Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sylk Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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