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Greater Berks Development Fund

The GREATER BERKS DEVELOPMENT FUND aids and promotes economic and industrial expansion, and contributes to the economic well-being of reading and berks county by facilitating, promoting, and participating in, and financing economic development and community revitalization projects consistent with the needs of the community, with the…

$4.7M
Granted FY2021
168
Grants FY2021
167
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$37M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
McCollough for Hillview Cemetery$45,0001n/a

Plus 166 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Greater Berks Development Fund 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 Greater Berks Development Fund

How much does Greater Berks Development Fund give?
Greater Berks Development Fund reported 168 grants totaling $4,680,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Greater Berks Development Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (72%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Human Services (7%).
Who are Greater Berks Development Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: McCollough for Hillview Cemetery ($45k).
Where is Greater Berks Development Fund based?
Greater Berks Development Fund 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 167 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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