· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SYLVIA PERKIN PERPETUAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE LV | $75,000 |
| CEDAR CREST COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN PA | $12,500 |
| ALLENTOWN ECUMENICAL FOOD | $10,000 |
| THE LITERACY CENTER | $8,500 |
| CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS | $7,500 |
| VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE | $7,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $6,500 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL | $6,000 |
| THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN | $6,000 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MERCY SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER INC | $5,000 |
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, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- CCCEDAR CREST COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +5%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +29%
- CBCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LV INCone grant, 2022 · $7k
- CSCACL - SIXTH STREET SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $6k
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY PUBLIC TELEVISION CORone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…
To help people reach their full potential through a rewarding career, meaningful relationships, and an enriching community life. Via creates pathways to success through vocation, inclusion, and advocacy.
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To improve the economy and quality of communities in the lehigh valley metropolitan area.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Lehigh valley center for independent living empowers persons with all types of disabilities to achieve independence in an inclusive community.
Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.
The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…
To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.
To collect information from consumers and families of individuals in the mental health care system and report on their level of satisfaction with these services, in order to achieve a better understanding of how to serve these individuals…
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bloom for Women Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 97 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
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 CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ALLENTOWN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDREN'S CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANISTIC CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM EMERGENCY SHELTERING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANSHIP SUPPORT AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds LV PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP WLVT-TV CHANNEL 39 ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA ALLENTOWN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELOT FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WLVT RE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds SATORI LTD ↗
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: 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
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 Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust 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.