How much does The Century Fund Trust give?

The Century Fund Trust reported 1 grants totaling $849,427 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 105 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Century Fund Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (9%).

Who are The Century Fund Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Allentown Symphony Association Inc ($992k), Century Promise ($949k), Cedar Crest College ($404k).

Does The Century Fund Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Century Fund Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Century Fund Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harry C Trexler Estate, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley.

Where is The Century Fund Trust based?

The Century Fund Trust is based in PA.

The Century Fund Trust

The Century Fund Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

The Century Fund Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$849k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$849k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$13MArts & Culture$2.8MEducation$1.9MEmployment$969kHuman Services$595kCommunity Improvement$493kYouth Development$362kHousing & Shelter$309kOther$0

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$849,427

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE CENTURY PROMISE	$849,427

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.1M · 100 repeat orgs$398k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

100 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 99 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100

Total granted

$8.1M

$398k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+25%

Still filing today

57%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AS
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $992k · revenue +60%
CP
CENTURY PROMISE
2× · 2021–2023 · $949k · revenue +111% · 66% of their budget
CC
CEDAR CREST COLLEGE
4× · 2017–2020 · $404k · revenue +5%

Funded once

DR
DOROTHY RIDER POOL TRUST
one grant, 2020 · $50k
B2
BUILDING 21
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
PN
PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +462%

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.

04Its field

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.

Delaware Valley University

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…

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Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

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…

Community Improvement

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School

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…

Education

Pocono Health System

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.

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Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education

Lehigh Valley Physician Group

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…

Health

Lebanon Valley College

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.…

Education

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

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.

Education

Lehigh Valley Hospital

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.

Health

Lebanon Valley Council On the Arts

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.

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Lehigh University

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh Valley Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 138 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/75

Grantees still filing

54/75

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$13,196,474Other$4,854,027Arts & Culture$1,931,523Education$1,117,500Housing & Shelter$297,000Youth Development$165,500Community Improvement$115,000

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.

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.

Harry C Trexler EstatePA123.6× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Century Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Century Fund Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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How do I get to The Century Fund Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Century Fund 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home