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Berks County Community Foundation Inc

To promote philanthropy and improve the quality of life for residents of berks county.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
178
Itemized grants FY2025
100
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$4.9M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$13,481
Largest grant, FY2025
$750,200
Organizations funded a year
70 to 113
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$155M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Berks County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving108$4.8M15%
FY2024100$4.0M18%
FY202393$4.0M17%
FY2022108$4.5M26%
FY2021113$3.3M30%
FY202095$3.3M29%
FY2019105$3.6M40%
FY201870$3.4M46%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$6.5MArts & Culture$4.6MHealth$4.3MEducation$3.4MHuman Services$2.4MAnimals$2.4MRecreation & Sports$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.6MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 271 grantees
All grantees of Berks County Community Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Berks Nature$4,846,225824%
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust$1,465,846535%
Albright College$1,273,87551%
Animal Rescue League of Berks County Inc$1,077,438911%
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum$1,016,96194%
Reading Downtown Improvement District$885,0003n/a
South Mountain YMCA$772,23498%
Kutztown University Foundation Inc$738,41135%
Berks County Association ft Blind Inc DBA Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty$695,441928%
Tower Health at Home Fka Tower Health at Home - Berks$547,99571%
Building a Better Boyertown$547,990898%
Safe Berks$541,99593%
Foundation for Reading Area Community College$531,97097%
Humane Pennsylvania$484,85043%
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank$482,95091%
The Highlands at Wyomissing$442,00080%
Alvernia University$391,97670%
Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network$344,43579%
City of Reading$336,7139n/a
Green Building Alliance$335,67029%
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation$331,775222%
Rodale Institute$325,00041%
Spotlight Pa$325,00032%
Reading Hospital Foundation$321,75491%
Goggle Works$312,40083%
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading$288,87398%
United Way of Berks County Inc$274,30090%
Baseballtown Charities$264,000522%
Berks County Chamber Foundation$260,000254%
Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Education LC$222,569410%
Berks Catholic High School Inc$213,9418n/a
Center for Governmental Research$213,00046%
The Salvation Army$205,1038n/a
Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines$205,00093%
Opportunity House$204,51061%
Dickinson College$203,00030%
Berks Encore Inc$198,50035%
Western Berks Ambulance Association$197,00061%
American Cancer Society Inc$194,72540%
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association$194,07571%
Berks Community Health Center$182,36560%
Reading Symphony Orchestra Association$158,15983%
St Joseph Medical Center Foundation$155,83852%
Institute for Conservation Leadership$153,08428%
Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom$150,0009n/a
Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa$134,30071%
St Ignatius Loyola Church & School$133,2469n/a
Reading Recreation Commission$127,95082%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$124,37570%
Boyertown Community Library$120,08075%
Gannon University$120,00010%
Drexel University$117,19430%
YMCA of Reading & Berks County$114,90061%
Boyertown Lions Community Ambulance Service Inc$113,96972%
Penn State Health$113,15130%
Reading Sda Junior Academy$113,0002n/a
Planned Parenthood Keystone$112,69560%
Pennsylvania Economy League Inc$105,00013%
Barrio Alegria Co$104,234315%
Berks County Jail System$100,1156n/a
Pocono Environmental Education Center Inc$100,00016%
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence$100,00040%
The Children's Home of Reading$100,000114%
Our Town Foundation$99,06568%
Mifflin Community Library$92,00094%
National Geographic Society$90,00090%
Impactisrael Inc$90,00090%
National Wildlife Refuge Association$90,00091%
Borough Council Borough of Shillington$90,0008n/a
Wyomissing Public Library$88,90093%
Lifeline of Berks County Inc$88,39077%
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf$88,34190%
Villanova University$88,34190%
University of Pittsburgh$85,00010%
Tulpehocken Area School District$83,5066n/a
Reading Public Library Foundation$83,150416%
Breast Cancer Support Services of Berks County$80,45074%
Clay on Main$79,909432%
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc$79,00061%
Historical Society of Berks County$77,50056%
Pennon Organization$76,00021%
Pennsylvania Dental Foundation$75,000218%
Pine Grove Mennonite$75,0004n/a
Wyomissing Area Education Foundation Inc$74,336121%
Diocese of Allentown$71,4757n/a
Boyertown Area Multi-Service Inc$71,40031%
Hcsc - Blood Center$68,90030%
United Disabilities Services Foundation$67,60022%
Emergency Medical Training$66,860219%
General Carl Spaatz Regional Usaac Museum$66,500513%
The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc$66,49541%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$65,39330%
Conrad Weiser Area School District$65,1423n/a
Schuylkill River Greenway Association$65,00021%
West Reading Community Revitalization Foundation$65,000217%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa$64,00061%
Hire Heroes USA Inc$60,00060%
Pennsylvania State University$60,0001n/a
Veterans Making a Difference$60,000512%
Genesius Corporation$59,85056%
The Kings Academy Inc$58,28822%
New Journey Community Outreachinc$56,20051%
John Paul II Center for Special Learning$56,0005n/a
Generation180$51,4801n/a
Immanuel United Church of Christ$51,2445n/a
Western Berks Free Medical Clinic$50,790257%
Vision to Learn$50,00020%
Reformation Evangelical Lutheran Church$50,0001n/a
Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education$50,00015%
Producers Partnership Inc$50,000111%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Philadelphia Region$50,00050%
Virginia Organizing Inc$49,72010%
Clare of Assisi House Inc$49,64146%
Greater Easton Development Partnership$49,0001n/a
Christ Episcopal Church$48,0006n/a
Connections Work$46,75050%
Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pa$45,00023%
Hannahs Hope Ministries Inc$44,80063%
Borough of West Reading$43,2395n/a
Hamburg Area Education Foundation$43,2006n/a
Reading School District$42,9802n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$42,92540%
Reading Area Community College$42,3001n/a
Calvary United Methodist Church$40,6007n/a
Boyertown Area Midget Baseball League Inc$40,15028%
Community Prevention Partnership$40,00031%
The Energy Efficiency Alliance$40,00017%
State Theatre Preservation Society$40,0002n/a
Berks Coalition to End Homelessness Inc$39,01322%
Holy Cross UMC Calvary Campus$38,9003n/a
Literacy Council of Reading-Berks$38,00034%
United Way of Boyertown Area$36,87265%
American Cancer Society Inc Hershey Division Office$35,8952n/a
Common Ground Recovery Ministry$35,8002n/a
Hope Lutheran Church$35,6253n/a
Community Services for Children Inc$34,08320%
St Margaret's School$33,3642n/a
Pennenvironment Research & Policy Center Inc$33,00022%
Team Pennsylvania Foundation$32,62911%
Mary's Shelter$32,45022%
Reading Science Center$32,43933%
The Student Conservation Association Inc$32,00010%
Bernardine Sister of the Third$32,0002n/a
Sparks Foundation Inc$31,83542%
Junior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania$31,30051%
Lgbt Center of Greater Reading$30,50015%
Keystone Warriors$30,000310%
Veterans Coalition of Pennsylvania$30,00039%
Habitat for Humanity of Berks County$30,00012%
Reading Area Firefighters Museum$29,70023%
La Salle University$28,00010%
Plymouth Township Pennsylvania$27,5003n/a
Richard J Caron Foundation$27,50030%
Ringgold Band Inc$26,500221%
Reading Musical Foundation$26,35031%
Governor Mifflin Education Foundation$26,00033%
Aevidum$25,750114%
Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia Inc$25,00010%
Wyomissing Fire Department$25,0002n/a
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$25,00010%
Northeastern Berks Main Street Foundation$25,000135%
Exeter Township Police Dept$24,7662n/a
Pennsylvania Adult and Teen Challenge$24,490111%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$23,92530%
First Senior Center of St Peter's UCC$22,2501n/a
Shady Hollow Assisted Riding$22,15036%
Gilbertsville Fire and Rescue Company$21,67232%
Werner Acres$21,6671n/a
Fleetwood Area Public Library$21,00016%
Ephrata Recreation Center$20,38020%
The Colton Underwood Legacy Foundation$20,08325%
Berks County Convention Center Authority$20,0001n/a
Berks Counseling Center Inc$20,00020%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc$20,00020%
Elderheart Inc$20,00020%
Friendship Fire Co No 2 of Mohnton Pennsylvania$19,441115%
Blue Mountain Academy$19,0802n/a
Wcr Center for the Arts Inc$19,000217%
Allegheny Lutheran Church$18,0001n/a
Partners for Sacred Places Inc$18,00020%
Livingston Food Pantry of Park County$17,50021%
Widoktadwen Center for Native Knowledge$17,5002n/a
Berks Christian School$17,3492n/a
American Academy of Pediatrics Pennsylvania Chapter$17,00010%
Berks Youth Chorus Inc$17,00028%
The Food Trust$17,00020%
Reading City Church$16,2541n/a
Readingfilmfest$16,000112%
Reading Choral Society$15,98527%
Holy Spirit Farm & Horse Sanctuary$15,2502n/a
Boyertown Rotary Foundation$15,0001n/a
Delaware Riverkeeper Network$15,0001n/a
18th WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$15,000129%
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth And Families$15,00010%
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and School$14,5932n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc$14,25010%
Huffs Evangelical Lutheran Church$14,2501n/a
Twin Valley Community Education Foundation$12,311115%
Laurens Foundation Inc$12,0101n/a
Second Wind Bicycles$12,0001n/a
Association of Fundraising Professionals$12,00010%
Urban Affairs Coalition$12,00010%
Lancaster Theological Seminary$12,0002n/a
Berks Community Television$11,00012%
Entrepreneurs' Connection$10,5341n/a
Oley Valley Community Education Foundation$10,20024%
Berks Arts Council$10,12511%
Wildlife for Everyone Endowment Foundation$10,00012%
Berks Alliance$10,000137%
Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association$10,00010%
Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library$10,00015%
Lancaster County Career & Technology Foundation$10,00011%
Greater Reading Alliance of Community Theatres$10,0001n/a
Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc$10,00011%
Independent Feature Project Inc$10,00010%
Education Works Inc$10,0001n/a
Third Option Foundation$10,00011%
Unite for HER$10,00010%
Brandywine Heights Area School$10,0001n/a
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$10,00010%
Passive House Institute US$10,00011%
Abilities in Motion$10,00010%
Prospectus Associates Inc$10,00010%
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Ne Pa$10,00010%
Hearing the Call Inc$10,00012%
Thistle Creek Farm$10,0001n/a
Folds of Honor Eastern-Pa-Nj-Chapter$10,0001n/a
Easy Does It Inc$10,00011%
Fort Campbell Historical Foundation$10,00016%
Threshold Rehabilitation Services Inc$10,00010%
Sisters Network Reading Pa$10,0001n/a
Pottstown Area Seniors' Center$10,00011%
Hawk Mountain Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$10,00011%
Laney's Legacy of Hope$9,8001n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$9,60010%
The Village of Arts and Humanities$9,41510%
United Community Services for Working Families$9,32512%
Reading Pride Celebration$8,8751n/a
Forks Township$8,5771n/a
Berks Military History Museum$8,5001n/a
Village of Reading$8,390119%
Cafe Esperanza$8,25016%
Reach Out and Read Inc$8,00010%
Bausman Memorial United Church of Christ$8,0001n/a
Hope of the Nations Christian$8,0001n/a
Berks Agricultural Resource Network$8,0001n/a
Memorial Church of the Holy Cross United Methodist$8,0001n/a
Kirkridge Inc$7,50011%
Then2now Foundation$7,5001n/a
National Council of YMCAs of the USA$7,30210%
Reading Theater Project$7,0001n/a
Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Inc$7,0001n/a
Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association Inc$7,0001n/a
Berks Area Mountain Biking Association$6,7001n/a
Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries$6,3951n/a
Friedens United Church of Christ$6,2001n/a
Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communiti$6,00010%
Muhlenberg Township$6,0001n/a
Berks Recycling Coalition$6,0001n/a
Little Acts of Love Inc$6,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$6,00010%
Reading Youth Legion Baseball$6,0001n/a
Grey Muzzle Manor Sanctuary Inc$6,0001n/a
Hamburg Area Education Foundation$5,8001n/a
Muhlenberg School District$5,7691n/a
Lower Merion Township$5,7001n/a
Caernarvon Township Police Department$5,6951n/a
Berks County Chiefs of Police Association$5,6441n/a
Saint Francis University$5,50010%
Amos Lemon Burkhart Foundation$5,50016%
St Johns Gernants Lutheran Church$5,2001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Berks County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 187 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBerks Nature: $4,846,225 over 8y, 24% of budgetColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust: $1,465,846 over 5y, 35% of budgetAlbright College: $1,273,875 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Berks County Inc: $1,077,438 over 9y, 11% of budgetFoundation for the Reading Public Museum: $1,016,961 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetSouth Mountain YMCA: $772,234 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetKutztown University Foundation Inc: $738,411 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetBerks County Association ft Blind Inc DBA Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty: $695,441 over 9y, 28% of budgetTower Health at Home Fka Tower Health at Home - Berks: $547,995 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBuilding a Better Boyertown: $547,990 over 8y, 98% of budgetSafe Berks: $541,995 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetFoundation for Reading Area Community College: $531,970 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetHumane Pennsylvania: $484,850 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHelping Harvest Fresh Food Bank: $482,950 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetThe Highlands at Wyomissing: $442,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAlvernia University: $391,976 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCo County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network: $344,435 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetGreen Building Alliance: $335,670 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetHumane Pennsylvania Foundation: $331,775 over 2y, 22% of budgetRodale Institute: $325,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSpotlight Pa: $325,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetReading Hospital Foundation: $321,754 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetGoggle Works: $312,400 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading: $288,873 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetUnited Way of Berks County Inc: $274,300 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBaseballtown Charities: $264,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetBerks County Chamber Foundation: $260,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetRock Hollow Woods Environmental Education LC: $222,569 over 4y, 10% of budgetCenter for Governmental Research: $213,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetRyerss Farm for Aged Equines: $205,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetOpportunity House: $204,510 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDickinson College: $203,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBerks Encore Inc: $198,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetWestern Berks Ambulance Association: $197,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $194,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $194,075 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBerks Community Health Center: $182,365 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetReading Symphony Orchestra Association: $158,159 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSt Joseph Medical Center Foundation: $155,838 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetInstitute for Conservation Leadership: $153,084 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetOlivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa: $134,300 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetReading Recreation Commission: $127,950 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $124,375 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoyertown Community Library: $120,080 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetGannon University: $120,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDrexel University: $117,194 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Reading & Berks County: $114,900 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBoyertown Lions Community Ambulance Service Inc: $113,969 over 7y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 187.

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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.

The Breidegam Family FoundationPA118.8× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Breidegam Family Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Henry Janssen Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Berkshire Charitable 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.

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How do I get to Berks County Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Berks County Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Berks County Community Foundation Inc

How much does Berks County Community Foundation Inc give?
Berks County Community Foundation Inc reported 178 itemized grants totaling $4,883,105, out of $6,144,929 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 113 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Berks County Community Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).
Who are Berks County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Berks Nature ($4.8M), Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust ($1.5M), Albright College ($1.3M).
Does Berks County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Berks County Community Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Breidegam Family Foundation, United Way of Berks County Inc, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
Where is Berks County Community Foundation Inc based?
Berks County Community Foundation Inc is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 282 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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