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Katherine H Keiser Trust

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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$218kArts & Culture$207kPhilanthropy$120kReligion$109k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $834
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
$12,049
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC$12,049
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BKS CO INC$12,049
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY$12,049
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY$12,049
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$12,049
TOMPKINS TRUST COMPANY$11,215
READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC$834
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $14k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $13k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $12k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $12k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $12k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BKS CO INC: $12k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $12k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $11k → 11%ANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS: $10k → 11%UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY: $14k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY: $14k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $14k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $14k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $13k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CO: $13k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $13k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CO: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY: $12k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CO: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12k → 11%UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY: $12k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $12k → 11%UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $12k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $14k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $11k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $13k → 11%UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY: $11k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $12k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $11k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CNTY: $11k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $12k → 11%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $12k → 11%TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $12k → 11%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS CO: $10k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $11k → 11%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$631k · 6 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$631k
$23k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue -52%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +38%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k

Funded once

  • AR
    ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BKS CO INC
    one grant, 2025 · $12k
  • TT
    TOMPKINS TRUST COMPANY
    one grant, 2025 · $11k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

3 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INC — $109,112 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS CO INCTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $109,112 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKS — $97,063 · OtherANIMAL RES LEAGUE OF BKSANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BKS CO INC — $12,049 · Other+1 more — $11,215 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY — $109,113 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTYREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $97,898 · Arts & CultureREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT…UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $109,112 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BERK…
Other$338,551Arts & Culture$207,011Philanthropy$109,112

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY — $109,113 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC — $109,112 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $97,898 over 9y, 1.2% of budget
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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
  • Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Katherine H Keiser Trust 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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