· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc
To cultivate a vibrant, healthy jewish community, inspire greater jewish identity, and promote deeper understanding and stronger connections between jews and non-jews in reading/berks county.
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96% of Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $88k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRATZ COLLEGE | $26,607 |
| REFORM CONGREGATION OHEB SHOLOM | $21,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $15,400 |
| MEIR PANIM | $14,883 |
| READING PUBLIC MUSEUM | $5,300 |
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 69% of Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 21%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2018, 2 since wound down. Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +38%
- IIIMPACTISRAEL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $74k · revenue +35%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +316%
Funded once
- SMSOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +47%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -23%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MEIR PANIM ↗
- Who funds GRATZ COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
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 · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Reading Pa Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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