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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation

To serve berks county businesses, foster economic development and growth, and business support through combined management and coordination of activities and resources of gbdf and grcci.

$205k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$91,289
Largest grant, FY2025
$96,157
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2025still arriving2$205k0%
FY20232$71k0%
FY20221$9k0%
FY20212$32k50%
FY20202$24k0%
FY20193$204k0%
FY20184$212k50%
FY20172$53kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Community Improvement$518kEducation$87k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce & Industry$417,55269%
Greater Reading Economic Partnership$169,081213%
Greater Berks Development Fund$136,34142%
Berks County Intermediate Unit$52,3684n/a
I-Lead Charter School$35,00023%

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About Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation

How much does Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation give?
Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation reported 3 grants totaling $205,222 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (86%), Education (14%).
Who are Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce & Industry ($418k), Greater Reading Economic Partnership ($169k), Greater Berks Development Fund ($136k).
Does Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation based?
Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation 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 5 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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