· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $875k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK | $1,000,000 |
| PENN STATE HEALTH | $250,000 |
| INDIAN HILLS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $150,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION | $100,000 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PENN STATE | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| OLIVET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $75,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $50,000 |
| OUR CITY READING | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHRIST MERTZ LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS | $15,000 |
| READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
161 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LVLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK5× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +353%
- PSPenn State Health5× · 2019–2025 · $279k · revenue +184%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK7× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
- COCITY OF CORYDONone grant, 2023 · $38k
- BOBLANKETS OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 27% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
The greater reading mental health alliance is dedicated to promoting mental health wellness and recovery through advocacy, education and support.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…
To serve berks county businesses, foster economic development and growth, and business support through combined management and coordination of activities and resources of gbdf and grcci.
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…
Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berks County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berks Area Mountain Biking Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 277 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY READING INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Fleetwood Area Public Library ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HANNAHS HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND INC COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BERKS NATURE ↗
- Who funds HAMBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds READING SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Guidance Center ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Breidegam Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.