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Law Foundation of Berks County

The LAW FOUNDATION OF BERKS COUNTY is a non-profit corporation designed to raise and provide funds to support charitable efforts in berks county including, but not limited to, educational endeavors as well as programming that increases access to justice or aids in the administration of justice.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$198kPhilanthropy$33kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$15kEducation$9kScience & Tech$9kYouth Development$5kAnimals$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $42,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,282 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,782 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT$15,000
CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE CENTER OF BERKS COUNTY$10,000
CASA OF BERKS COUNTY$10,000
BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE BRIDGE FUND$7,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $15k → 12%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE CENTER OF BERKS COUNTY: $14k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $15k → 12%GOGGLE WORKS: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $15k → 12%CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE CENTER OF BERKS COUNTY: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $15k → 12%BRIDGE FUND CO BCCF: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $15k → 12%SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO BCCF: $9k → 11%COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $13k → 12%BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE BRIDGE FUND: $8k → 11%BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE BRIDGE FUND: $8k → 11%BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE BRIDGE FUND: $8k → 11%VOICEUP BERKS CO BCCF: $5k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $23k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $20k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $20k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $19k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $18k → 11%CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $10k → 11%TEACHERS IN THE PARKS: $9k → 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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$221k · 3 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$221k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • CO
    CASA OF BERKS COUNTY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +82%
  • CJ
    COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +14%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE CENTER OF BERKS COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k

Funded once

  • GW
    GOGGLE WORKS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • BF
    BRIDGE FUND CO BCCF
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • SR
    SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO BCCF
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $109,752 · Crime & LegalCASA OF BERKS COUNTYCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $88,200 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECTCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE CENTER OF BERKS COUNTY: $23,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S ALLIANC…BRIDGE FUND CO BCCF: $10,000 · OtherBRIDGE FUND CO BCC…SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO BCCF: $9,000 · OtherSCIENCE RESEARCH I…VOICEUP BERKS CO BCCF: $5,000 · OtherVOICEUP BERKS CO B…BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyGOGGLE WORKS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEACHERS IN THE PARKS: $9,000 · EducationANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BERKS COUNTY: $5,000 · Youth Development
Crime & Legal$197,952Other$47,500Philanthropy$22,500Arts & Culture$10,000Education$9,000Animals$5,000Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCASA OF BERKS COUNTY: $109,752 over 6y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $88,200 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGOGGLE WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEACHERS IN THE PARKS: $9,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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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 Law Foundation of Berks County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Law Foundation of Berks County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Law Foundation of Berks County through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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