· Private foundation
Potteiger Samuel
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEAST PA SYNOD LUTH CHURCH | $30,000 |
| EVERTRUE | $15,000 |
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,625 |
| READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,875 |
| THE CHILDRENS HOME OF READING | $7,500 |
| TOWER HEALTH AT HOME | $2,500 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CITY OF READING MAYOR | $2,500 |
| THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +40%
- RHREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +144%
- TCThe Children's Home of Reading6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- DLDIAKON LUTHERN SOC MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $29k
- TLTHE LUTHERAN HOME AT TOPTONone grant, 2020 · $14k
- RHREADING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CTRone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…
Tower health medical group is the region's premier physician-directed, multi-specialty group of health care professionals who participate with tower health in managing population health and promoting wellness, delivering health care that…
Provide health and social services appropriate to meet the needs of individuals and families at their place of residence.
Spirit physician services, inc. supports penn state health holy spirit medical center's mission as a community health system.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Elk regional health center d/b/a penn highlands elk will be the healthcare provider of choice for our communities through a commitment to service, quality, people, finance and growth.
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
We, holy cross health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. we carry out this mission in our communities through our commitment to be the…
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 17 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 ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Reading ↗
- Who funds Family Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds HUMANE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - 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 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Potteiger Samuel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potteiger Samuel. Bigger dots raise more.
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