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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CO-COUNTY WELLNESS SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPH | $5,000 |
| HOPE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| CASA OF BERKS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JOHN PAUL II CENTER | $4,000 |
| MARY'S SHELTER | $3,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA | $3,000 |
| HILLSIDE SPCA | $2,500 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING BERKS | $2,500 |
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA | $2,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST | $2,000 |
| WYOMISSING PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCo County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +69%
- RMREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $26k · revenue +18%
- MSMARY'S SHELTER6× · 2018–2024 · $19k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKSone grant, 2021 · $1k
- TSThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -7%
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
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.
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…
To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
The greater reading mental health alliance is dedicated to promoting mental health wellness and recovery through advocacy, education and support.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
To provide skilled, professional ambulance service to those in need of basic and advanced life support, and related services, in the western berks county area.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
Public lending library
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc. 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network ↗
- Who funds READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds RED CREEK WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds Hillside SPCA Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WYOMISSING PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ONE BY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATWORKS MENGEL ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Centre Park Historic District Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING ↗
- Who funds WYOMISSING AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA REVOCABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOOD TO WONDERFUL INC ↗
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.
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
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 Blue Mountain Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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