· Public charity
Reading Musical Foundation
To advance and advocate for music education and appreciation in berks county.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $118,395 |
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $32,000 |
| RINGGOLD BAND | $20,000 |
| READING CHORAL SOCIETY | $18,500 |
| BERKS ARTS | $14,200 |
| READING POPS ORCHESTRA | $11,700 |
| FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC | $8,800 |
| WCR CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $8,100 |
| BERKS SINFONIETTA | $8,000 |
| YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION | $7,500 |
| BERKS YOUTH CHORUS | $6,465 |
| OPUS ONE BERKS CHAMBER CHOIR | $6,000 |
| VOX PHILIA | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its 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.
14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RSREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +56%
- OBOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +1%
- RCREADING CHORAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- OOOPUS ONE BERKS CHAMBER CHOIRone grant, 2025 · $6k
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.
Performs classical music for the community
Founded in 1990, Berkshire Children's Chorus explores the globe and travels through time by singing music from various cultures and eras, while also sparking new friendships between singers from across the region. BCC is committed to…
Provide concerts for the members of the community.
Symphonic concerts
Offering Professional Music Concerts
Berkshire Lyric is a community of choruses where singers ages six to eighty explore a world of beauty through the choral arts. Founded in 1963 Berkshire Lyric continues to explore a wide variety of great music for chorus. We believe that…
Ballet and artistic performances for the public
Performing arts concerts and arts in education
Providing an annual series of chamber music concerts for audiences in Berkeley and Lafayette, California, for the past 33 years.
YOBC offers participants large ensembles, chamber groups, master classes, our Students-In-Concert outreach program. The focus is on superior classical music education while challenging students to achieve excellence.
Since 1991, the Ambler Choral Society provides quality classical choral music to the greater Ambler community. We have performed at least two concerts each year except during the covid pandemic. The Choral Society has participated in many…
Musical performance
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds READING CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RINGGOLD BAND INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BERKS YOUTH CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds READING POPS ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC OF READING ↗
- Who funds THE YOCUM INSTITUTE FOR ARTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS SINFONIETTA INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS OPERA WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds WCR CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Reading Musical Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reading Musical Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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