Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Jerlyn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $111k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Jerlyn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $111k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $66k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $56k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $45k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $50k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $87k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $102k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alvernia University | $187,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Berks Arts Council | $81,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Richard J Caron Foundation | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Reading Symphony Orchestra Association | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bernardine Sister of the Third | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Lawrenceville School | $10,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Berks Encore Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YMCA of the Roses | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Norwalk Art Space Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lafayette College | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jerlyn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · John R Post Family Charitable · The Lynn and Robert Zimmer Family Foundation (For Joan Dalsheim Nevin)
How this is measured
About Jerlyn Foundation
- How much does Jerlyn Foundation give?
- Jerlyn Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jerlyn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (20%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Jerlyn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alvernia University ($187k), Berks Arts Council ($81k), Richard J Caron Foundation ($45k).
- Does Jerlyn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerlyn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jerlyn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jerlyn Foundation based?
- Jerlyn Foundation is based in PA.
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