Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Breidegam Family Foundation
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.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 122
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 122
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Breidegam Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $814k 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 | 65 | $2.4M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 122 | $2.6M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $383k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 105 | $293k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $315k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $241k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 96 | $241k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 84 | $244k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Valley Health Network | $2,010,500 | 5 | 9% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $450,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Penn State Health | $279,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network | $247,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Foundation for the Reading Public Museum | $216,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Alvernia University | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Berks County Inc | $190,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $165,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Reading Hospital Foundation | $81,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our City Reading Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 162 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 113 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Breidegam Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 125 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Henry Janssen Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation
How this is measured
About The Breidegam Family Foundation
- How much does The Breidegam Family Foundation give?
- The Breidegam Family Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $2,419,140 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 122 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Breidegam Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (15%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are The Breidegam Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh Valley Health Network ($2.0M), Pennsylvania State University ($450k), Penn State Health ($279k).
- Does The Breidegam Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Breidegam Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Breidegam Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Berks County Inc, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Breidegam Family Foundation based?
- The Breidegam Family Foundation is based in PA.
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