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Blue Mountain Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 41
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$992k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Blue Mountain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2024still arriving44$101k14%
FY202339$85k8%
FY202240$90k23%
FY202141$69k34%
FY202027$52k78%
FY20199$34k56%
FY20187$29k86%
FY20171$5kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$115kAnimals$61kArts & Culture$55kEducation$48kHuman Services$43kHousing & Shelter$42kYouth Development$33kReligion$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
PA
WV
MD
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 44 grantees
All grantees of Blue Mountain Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network$66,66181%
Reading Musical Foundation$26,00041%
Mary's Shelter$18,50060%
Red Creek Wildlife Center Inc$17,00032%
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading$15,50040%
Hillside SPCA Inc$12,00070%
Literacy Council of Reading-Berks$9,00050%
Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa$8,50050%
Wyomissing Public Library$7,50051%
Opportunity House$7,50050%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$7,50050%
Berks Encore Inc$7,50050%
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association$7,00050%
Horses and Horizons Therapeutic Lea Rning Center Inc$6,5004n/a
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank$6,50040%
One by One Inc$6,50042%
Safe Berks$6,00050%
The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc$6,00030%
Catworks Mengel$6,00024%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$5,50050%
Humane Pennsylvania$5,50030%
Centre Park Historic District Inc$5,25045%
Wyomissing Area Education Foundation Inc$5,00051%
Friends of Chamber Music of Reading$5,00052%
Casa of Berks County$5,00012%
Historical Society of Berks County$5,00050%
Berks Catholic High School Inc$5,0005n/a
Hawk Mountain Council Boy Scouts of America Revocable Trust$4,50041%
Wood to Wonderful Inc$4,10044%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$4,00030%
Richard J Caron Foundation$4,00030%
Reading Public Library Foundation$3,00021%
Western Berks Free Medical Clinic$3,00024%
Catholic Relief Services$2,5003n/a
The Children's Home of Reading$2,50030%
St Labre Indian School$1,1003n/a
YMCA of Reading & Berks County$1,00010%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Reading Hospital Foundation$1,00010%
First Church of Christ Scientist$2501n/a
Animal Rescue League of Berks County Inc$25010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$10010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$10010%
Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blue Mountain Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCo County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network: $66,661 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetReading Musical Foundation: $26,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMary's Shelter: $18,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRed Creek Wildlife Center Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHillside SPCA Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLiteracy Council of Reading-Berks: $9,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOlivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWyomissing Public Library: $7,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOpportunity House: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBerks Encore Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHawk Mountain Sanctuary Association: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Harvest Fresh Food Bank: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne by One Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSafe Berks: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCatworks Mengel: $6,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Pennsylvania: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentre Park Historic District Inc: $5,250 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWyomissing Area Education Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Chamber Music of Reading: $5,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCasa of Berks County: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Berks County: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHawk Mountain Council Boy Scouts of America Revocable Trust: $4,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWood to Wonderful Inc: $4,100 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRichard J Caron Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReading Public Library Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Berks Free Medical Clinic: $3,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetThe Children's Home of Reading: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Reading & Berks County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReading Hospital Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Rescue League of Berks County Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Pennsylvania Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 39.

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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.

Berks County Community Foundation IncPA55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Find your warmest path to Blue Mountain Foundation 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.

About Blue Mountain Foundation

How much does Blue Mountain Foundation give?
Blue Mountain Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $100,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Blue Mountain Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Animals (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Blue Mountain Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network ($67k), Reading Musical Foundation ($26k), Mary's Shelter ($19k).
Does Blue Mountain Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Blue Mountain 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 Blue Mountain Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
Where is Blue Mountain Foundation based?
Blue Mountain Foundation 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 66 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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