Delaware · Private foundation
Berkshire Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $554k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Berkshire Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $554k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $510k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $520k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $591k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $501k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $503k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Safe Berks | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Opportunity House | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Reading Hospital Foundation | $140,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Men's Second Chance Living | $95,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Reading Science Center | $80,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($440k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berkshire Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cynthia and Jim Boscov Family Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · Hammel Family Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia
How this is measured
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About Berkshire Charitable Foundation
- How much does Berkshire Charitable Foundation give?
- Berkshire Charitable Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $554,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Berkshire Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (14%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Berkshire Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bradley Free Clinic of Roanoke Valley Inc ($210k), Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank ($170k), Safe Berks ($150k).
- Does Berkshire Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berkshire Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berkshire Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, Henry Janssen Foundation.
- Where is Berkshire Charitable Foundation based?
- Berkshire Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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