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Jerlyn Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$286kArts & Culture$151kHuman Services$62kHealth$62kReligion$58kYouth Development$51kAnimals$16kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$95,000
BERKS ART COUNCIL$10,000
CARON FOUNDATION$5,000
BREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $250 → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY: $250 → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $10k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$660k · 49 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
24

Total granted

$660k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

53%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AU
    ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +51%
  • BA
    BERKS ARTS COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +24%
  • RJ
    RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • BE
    BERKS ENCORE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • YO
    YMCA OF THE ROSESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +117%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Bentley University

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…

Education
12
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School; the most unlike its peers is Connect Us. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $187,000 · OtherALVERNIA UNIVERSITYGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA: $40,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PAKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $23,750 · OtherHOLY ROSARY CHURCH: $15,500 · Other+39 more: $185,750 · Other+39 moreBERKS ARTS COUNCIL: $81,000 · Arts & CultureBERKS ARTS COUNCILREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SYMPHONY ORCHE…THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NORWALK ART SPACE …HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY: $4,000 · HealthLOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $10,500 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $8,500 · EducationALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $4,000 · EducationSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $3,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education+3 more: $3,000 · EducationBERKS ENCORE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE BERKS: $5,250 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY: $3,750 · Human ServicesHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · AnimalsLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,250 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $3,500 · AnimalsADOPT-A-DOG INC: $3,000 · AnimalsDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Youth Development
Other$452,000Arts & Culture$148,000Health$52,000Education$40,000Human Services$29,000Animals$15,750Youth Development$8,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $187,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS ARTS COUNCIL: $81,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBERKS ENCORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORWALK ART SPACE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE BERKS: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS NATURE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHands Together Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY: $3,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS BUSINESS EDUCATION COALITION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBERKS YOUTH CHORUS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKS COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ROUSSEAU INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECT US: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEADQUARTERS: $500 over 1y, 93% of budgetREADING CHORAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BERKS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
  • Who funds THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DAVID'S HARP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
  • Who funds BERKS NATURE ↗
  • Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds THE ROWAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN R KAUFFMAN JR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗

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.

Berks County Communit…The Breidegam Family …The Wyomissing Founda…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Henry Janssen Foundat…United Way of Berks C…Firstenergy FoundationBlue Mountain Foundat…The Catherine V and M…Fairfield County's Co…John R Post Family Ch…The Lynn and Robert Z…
Berks County Community Foundation IncPA34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jerlyn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerlyn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Art Space Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 73 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home