· Private foundation
The Century Fund Trust
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CENTURY PROMISE | $849,427 |
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 (FY17–20, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 99 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $992k · revenue +60%
- CPCENTURY PROMISE2× · 2021–2023 · $949k · revenue +111% · 66% of their budget
- CCCEDAR CREST COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $404k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DRDOROTHY RIDER POOL TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $50k
- B2BUILDING 21one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
- PNPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +462%
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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…
Lebanon valley college educates students for lifelong success through exceptional undergraduate liberal-arts programs and professional graduate programs delivered in an engaging and supportive academic and co-curricular environment.…
Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
Our mission is to 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 research.
Promote all art disciplines including exhibitions, dance productions, concerts, educational seminars and theatre. the organization has established a center for the arts in lebanon pennsylvania.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grace Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 138 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 LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DESALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC AMERICAN ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN BAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSOCIATION AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING 21 ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DA VINCI DISCOVERY CENTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS ↗
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: Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Sylvia Perkin Perpetual Charitable Trust · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Amaranth Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Julius & Katheryn Hommer Foundation · Butz 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 The Century Fund 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.
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