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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 FY2025still arriving
178
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$6.5MArts & Culture$4.6MHealth$4.3MEducation$3.4MHuman Services$2.4MAnimals$2.4MRecreation & Sports$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 178 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 178 grants below total $4,883,105 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,144,929 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,261,824 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $271k
  • $10k–50k123 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$13,481
Median grant
9
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERKS NATURE$750,200
BERKS NATURE$250,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM$250,000
GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE$185,054
TOWER HEALTH AT HOME$140,000
THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING$100,000
SPOTLIGHT PA$100,000
THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC$95,113
INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP$78,384
BASEBALLTOWN CHARITIES$70,000
HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA$70,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$60,000
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE (SCHOLL GRANTS)$56,908
BERKS ENCORE$56,000
BERKS COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$55,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOM-N-PA: $60k → 8%MOM-n-PA: $15k → 8%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $109k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS PENNSYLVANIA RIVERS CHAPTER: $20k → 11%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $86k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $86k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $83k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $79k → 9%Veterans Making a Difference: $20k → 11%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $36k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $33k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $33k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $18k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $18k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $18k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $18k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $18k → 9%South Mountain YMCA: $94k → 11%Concern - Prof Services for Children: $15k → 11%The Children's Home of Reading: $100k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $56k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $50k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $40k → 11%Berks Encore: $33k → 11%BERKS COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $24k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS TRI-COUNTY CHAPTER: $20k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $20k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS PENNSYLVANIA RIVERS CHAPTER: $20k → 11%Berks Coalition to End Homelessness: $15k → 11%THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING: $100k → 11%The Highlands at Wyomissing: $92k → 11%THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING: $70k → 11%The Highlands at Wyomissing: $50k → 11%The Highlands at Wyomissing: $50k → 11%THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING: $30k → 11%The Highlands at Wyomissing: $20k → 11%Mary's Shelter: $26k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $132k → 11%Safe Berks: $60k → 11%Safe Berks: $49k → 11%Safe Berks: $38k → 11%Safe Berks: $34k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $31k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $27k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $27k → 11%Safe Berks: $23k → 11%Clare of Assisi House: $20k → 11%Safe Berks: $19k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 160 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

160 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160
101

Total granted

$30M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

76%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BN
    BERKS NATURE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +194%
  • CR
    Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +357% · 35% of their budget
  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • SE
    Solarflux Energy Technologies Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $340k
  • GU
    GANNON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -4%
  • PE
    PENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Reading Berks Association of Realtors Inc

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.

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2
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
3
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry

The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…

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4
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
5
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
6
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
7
Pennsylvania Builders Association

Incorporated in 1945, the pennsylvania builders association is a nonprofit professional trade organization representing approximately 4,066 members from across the commonwealth. pba members include contractors, builders, and remodelers,…

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8
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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9
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
10
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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11
North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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12
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berks County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Genesius Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVolunteer Fire CompaniesJewish Religious & Educatio…Public Library SystemsEmergency Ambulance ServicesFraternal Organizations and…Healthcare System SupportVeterans Social ClubsYouth Sports Leagues
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/276
the rest of the field
12%
3,030/24,903

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.

04the grantee network

203 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. 203 of the 282 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
199/203
Grantees still filing
131/203
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Reading Downtown Improvement District — $885,000 · OtherReading Downtown Improvement DistrictJEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC — $521,775 · OtherHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK — $482,950 · OtherALVERNIA UNIVERSITY — $391,976 · OtherBUILDING A BETTER BOYERTOWN — $547,990 · Other+104 more — $8,273,536 · Other+104 moreBERKS NATURE — $4,846,225 · EnvironmentBERKS NATUREGREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE — $335,670 · EnvironmentGREEN BUILDING ALLI…Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Education LC — $222,569 · Environment+5 more — $289,480 · EnvironmentColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust — $1,465,846 · Arts & CultureColebrookdale R…FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM — $1,016,961 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR …KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $738,411 · Arts & CultureKUTZTOWN UNIVER…GOGGLE WORKS — $312,400 · Arts & CultureGOGGLE WORKSREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $158,159 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $863,042 · Arts & Culture+18 moreALBRIGHT COLLEGE — $1,273,875 · EducationALBRIGHT CO…FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $531,970 · EducationFOUNDATION …SPOTLIGHT PA — $325,000 · EducationSPOTLIGHT P…DICKINSON COLLEGE — $203,000 · EducationDICKINSON C…GANNON UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $117,194 · Education+13 more — $732,083 · Education+13 moreBerks County Association ft Blind Inc DBA Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty — $695,441 · HealthBerks Count…TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS — $547,995 · HealthTOWER HEALT…Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network — $344,435 · HealthCo County W…READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $321,754 · HealthREADING HOS…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $194,725 · HealthAMERICAN CA…BERKS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $182,365 · HealthBERKS COMMU…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $124,375 · HealthBOYERTOWN LIONS COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $113,969 · HealthPenn State Health — $113,151 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE — $112,695 · Health+12 more — $549,190 · Health+12 moreSOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA — $772,234 · Human ServicesSAFE BERKS — $541,995 · Human ServicesTHE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING — $442,000 · Human ServicesBERKS ENCORE INC — $198,500 · Human ServicesYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY — $114,900 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Reading — $100,000 · Human Services+8 more — $415,497 · Human ServicesANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $1,077,438 · AnimalsHUMANE PENNSYLVANIA — $484,850 · AnimalsHUMANE PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION — $331,775 · AnimalsHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $194,075 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION — $90,000 · Animals
Other$11,103,227Environment$5,693,944Arts & Culture$4,554,819Education$3,303,122Health$3,300,095Human Services$2,585,126Animals$2,178,138

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBERKS NATURE — $4,846,225 over 8y, 19% 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC — $521,775 over 9y, 12% 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 budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $134,318 over 3y, 0.9% 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 budget
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 BERKS NATURE ↗
  • Who funds Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA ↗
  • Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Berks County Association ft Blind Inc DBA Vision Resource Center of Berks Cnty ↗
  • Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING A BETTER BOYERTOWN ↗
  • Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network ↗
  • Who funds GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
  • Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
  • Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BASEBALLTOWN CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds BERKS COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Education LC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN BERKS AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

The Breidegam Family …United Way of Berks C…The Wyomissing Founda…Penn Entertainment Fo…Helping Harvest Fresh…Henry Janssen Foundat…Blue Mountain Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Firstenergy FoundationThe Catherine V and M…The Donald B and Doro…Berkshire Charitable …
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

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 County Community Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    56report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 282 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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