· Community foundation
Berks County Community Foundation Inc
To promote philanthropy and improve the quality of life for residents of berks county.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $271k
- $10k–50k123 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BNBERKS NATURE8× · 2018–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +134%
- CRColebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust5× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +357% · 35% of their budget
- ARANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +156%
Funded once
- SESolarflux Energy Technologies Incone grant, 2021 · $340k
- GUGANNON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -4%
- PEPENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
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To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
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To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Public lending library
Public lending library
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Public lending library
How this is measured
203 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. 203 of the 282 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Berks County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berks County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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