· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CO-COUNTY WELLNESS SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,500 |
| CASA OF BERKS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOPE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| PENN STATE HEALTH ST JOSEPH | $5,000 |
| JOHN PAUL II CENTER | $4,000 |
| MARY'S SHELTER | $3,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA | $3,000 |
| HILLSIDE SPCA | $2,500 |
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $2,500 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING BERKS | $2,500 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $2,000 |
| ONE BY ONE INC | $2,000 |
| BERKS ENCORE | $2,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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
- HMHAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL BSAone grant, 2019 · $1k
- YOYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 66 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
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 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 WYOMISSING PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ONE BY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds THE YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATWORKS MENGEL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Centre Park Historic District Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMISSING AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA REVOCABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOOD TO WONDERFUL INC ↗
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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Mountain Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Mountain Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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