· Public charity
Berks Alliance
To make strategic investments to enhance the vitality of the greater reading, pennsylvania area and support significant community revitalization and community development initatives.
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.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION | $75,000 |
| ECO MAP | $16,250 |
| YMCA READING | $10,000 |
| THE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- THTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue -8%
- TETRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $149k
- ACALBRIGHT COLLEGE2× · 2019–2022 · $105k · revenue -20%
Funded once
- LCLIT COMMUNITIES LLCone grant, 2022 · $79k
- PUPROGRESSIVE URBAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATESone grant, 2020 · $63k
- CFCOMMUNITY FIRST FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +218%
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 reading berks association of realtors promotes a high standard of professionalism, advocates for private property rights, and strives to improve the quality of life in our communities.
To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To promote philanthropy and improve the quality of life for residents of berks county.
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
Our vision is to be a cornerstone of excellence in the stewardship of the environment. clearly identified with our specific mission, we strive to meet the ever-changing needs of the county and to conserve its heritage and essential…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berks County Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 18th Wonder Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 33 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 THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKS LATINO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 18th WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER READING CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Inperium Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BERKS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds GREATER BERKS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
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: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Berks County Inc
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 Berks Alliance 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.