· Private foundation
Pf Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $21,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern PA | $12,500 |
| JOHN PAUL II CENTER FOR SPECIAL | $10,000 |
| Rendell Center for Civics and | $5,000 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ALBRIGHT COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA | $3,000 |
| Thiel College | $2,500 |
| Greater Berks Food Bank | $2,000 |
| RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION | $1,850 |
| Reading Public Library | $1,000 |
| Children's Home of Reading | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
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 FY2018, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OBOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +1%
- AUALVERNIA UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +51%
- HHHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- RRREADING RECREATION COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $7k
- BNBERKS NATUREgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +113%
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.
The reading berks association of realtors promotes a high standard of professionalism, advocates for private property rights, and strives to improve the quality of life in our communities.
Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…
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…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
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…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
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Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds READING RECREATION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THIEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BERKS NATURE ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Reading ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
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: The Breidegam Family Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · Henry Janssen Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Cynthia and Jim Boscov Family Foundation · The Kindness Coalition · Blue Mountain Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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