Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $312k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $278k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $297k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $291k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $281k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $266k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $199k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $238k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Crest College | $180,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Center of Allentown | $169,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Congregation Keneseth Israel | $138,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Bike Works | $57,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Literacy Center | $53,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Lehigh Valley Children's Centers Inc | $53,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Music School | $50,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Humanistic Change Inc | $41,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Third Street Alliance for Women and Children | $35,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Century Fund Trust · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Leona Gruber Charitable Trust · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust
- How much does Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust give?
- Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust reported 46 grants totaling $312,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedar Crest College ($180k), Jewish Community Center of Allentown ($170k), Congregation Keneseth Israel ($138k).
- Does Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Harry C Trexler Estate.
- Where is Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust based?
- Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust is based in PA.
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