How much did BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

Environment$5.7MArts & Culture$4.3MHealth$3.2MEducation$3.1MHuman Services$2.3MAnimals$2.2MCommunity Improvement$862kPhilanthropy$842kFood & Nutrition$424kOther$8.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

stageperformancesfloorschool-based summersummer sealantcommonwealthteaching

2020

unexpected revenuerevenue losseslosses resultresult pandemicspecialkutztowngroup

2021

polesinteractiveoperateofficemusic educationincomejob

2022

sustainabilitypracticalmountainitems listedgroundcurrentchristian

2023

tuitionmodelstephen sillercareerutilizingplymouth townshiptownship police

2024

creekstreamgoodexerciseredlightmaintenance

2025

respite careexhibitorsboyertown multi-servicemulti-service meetmeet unfilledunfilled greatergreater boyertown

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 168 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $256k
$10k–50k115 grants · $2.1M
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+3 grants · $1.3M

$13,481

Median grant

States reached

$155M

Total assets

Largest grants

BERKS NATURE$750,200
FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM$250,000
BERKS NATURE$250,000
GREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE$185,054
TOWER HEALTH AT HOME$140,000
SPOTLIGHT PA$100,000
THE HIGHLANDS AT WYOMISSING$100,000
THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC$95,113
INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP$78,384
HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA$70,000
BASEBALLTOWN CHARITIES$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

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 (FY18–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$29M · 158 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

158 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

158

100

Total granted

$29M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+24%

Still filing today

77%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

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 +167%
CR
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust
4× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +357% · 35% of their budget
TA
THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +156%

Funded once

SE
Solarflux Energy Technologies Inc
one grant, 2021 · $340k
GU
GANNON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue +23%
PE
POCONO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -15%

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.

Reading Berks Association of Realtors

Professional trade association for licensed real estate practitioners

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Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The provision of education, research, and charitable patient care services.

Education

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Berks Community Action Program Inc

To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county

Community Improvement

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

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society

Education for recreation, conservation, and environment

Recreation & Sports

Pennsylvania Rural Water Association

To coordinate water and wastewater system programs on a statewide basis and provide training and technical assistance to water and wastewater systems.

—

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

North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

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Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance

Mental health wellness and recovery in berks county through advocacy, education and support

Health

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

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 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%4/268

the rest of the field

10%

2,602/24,911

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.

05the grantee network

196 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

191/196

Grantees still filing

155/196

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,541,690Environment$5,685,144Arts & Culture$4,320,884Health$3,209,505Education$3,141,899Human Services$2,295,889Animals$2,151,638

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.

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.

United Way of Berks County IncPA118.3× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Berks County Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Firstenergy Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Studio B Arts & Activities Alliance.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~35 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +70% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043724833 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Studio B Arts & Activities Alliance, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 35 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Berks County Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Berks County Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

196 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Berks County Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

196 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Berks County Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph