· Private foundation
Henry Janssen 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 $10k19 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $75,000 |
| GOGGLEWORKS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST | $50,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $50,000 |
| CONRAD WEISER COMMUNITY POOL | $20,000 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| READING PUBLIC MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| BERKS HISTORY CENTER | $15,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL READING BERKS | $10,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +38%
- HHHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +108%
- OHOPPORTUNITY HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- OCOUR CITY READING INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +265%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR RACCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
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.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Public lending library
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The berkshire athenaeum, pittsfield's public library, exists to initiate, nurture and feed a passion for knowledge and learning. the library offers people of all ages the materials and services necessary to satisfy an appetite for…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
Public lending library
To carry out nonprofit corporate activities to sustain, increase, and extend the operations of the reading public library. these activities are to include, but are not limited to, the acquisition of property, collection and disbursement of…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Berks County and the most unlike its peers is The Wyomissing 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.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 76 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 UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BERKS NATURE ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY READING INC ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
- Who funds NEW JOURNEY COMMUNITY OUTREACHINC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBESONIA FURNACE INC ↗
- Who funds BELGRADE LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ROBESONIA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BELGRADE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER 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 · United Way of Berks County Inc · Blue Mountain Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cynthia and Jim Boscov Family Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Hammel Family 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 Henry Janssen 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.