Pennsylvania · Public charity
Reading Musical Foundation
To advance and advocate for music education and appreciation in berks county.
- $726k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $266k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $118,395
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Reading Musical Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $266k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $296k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $268k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $225k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $114k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $301k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $223k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $216k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Symphony Orchestra Association | $1,072,761 | 9 | 12% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $243,014 | 9 | 2% |
| Reading Choral Society | $166,250 | 9 | 23% |
| Ringgold Band Inc | $148,000 | 8 | 92% |
| Berks Arts Council | $105,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Berks Youth Chorus Inc | $88,265 | 9 | 16% |
| Reading Pops Orchestra | $85,400 | 9 | 17% |
| Friends of Chamber Music of Reading | $67,100 | 8 | 14% |
| The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc | $36,825 | 5 | 1% |
| Berks Sinfonietta Inc | $36,150 | 4 | 21% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Symphony Orchestra Association | $1,072,761 | 9 | 12% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $243,014 | 9 | 2% |
| Reading Choral Society | $166,250 | 9 | 23% |
| Ringgold Band Inc | $148,000 | 8 | 92% |
| Berks Arts Council | $105,200 | 9 | 2% |
| Berks Youth Chorus Inc | $88,265 | 9 | 16% |
| Reading Pops Orchestra | $85,400 | 9 | 17% |
| Friends of Chamber Music of Reading | $67,100 | 8 | 14% |
| The Yocum Institute for Arts Education Inc | $36,825 | 5 | 1% |
| Berks Sinfonietta Inc | $36,150 | 4 | 21% |
| Berks Opera Workshop | $22,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Goggle Works | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vox Philia | $14,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Wcr Center for the Arts Inc | $13,200 | 2 | 4% |
| Opus One Berks Chamber Choir | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Reading Musical Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · The Presser Foundation · Arthur Judson Foundation Inc · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · The Breidegam Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · Jerlyn Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Bartlett Fdn · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation
How this is measured
About Reading Musical Foundation
- How much does Reading Musical Foundation give?
- Reading Musical Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $265,660, out of $725,784 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Reading Musical Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Reading Musical Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Reading Symphony Orchestra Association ($1.1M), Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa ($243k), Reading Choral Society ($166k).
- Does Reading Musical Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Reading Musical Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc, The Presser Foundation.
- Where is Reading Musical Foundation based?
- Reading Musical Foundation is based in PA.
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