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The Breidegam Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.0MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$699kArts & Culture$464kHuman Services$421kYouth Development$330kReligion$204kPublic Safety & Disaster$157kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k46 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $875k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$3,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK$1,000,000
PENN STATE HEALTH$250,000
INDIAN HILLS FOUNDATION$200,000
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY$150,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM$100,000
PENN STATE$100,000
GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION$100,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOM-N-PA: $10k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF READING: $3k → 9%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF READING: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $3k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $2k → 9%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $2k → 9%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $3k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES: $6k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $5k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES: $5k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $5k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $5k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES: $5k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES: $5k → 11%YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY: $4k → 11%YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY: $4k → 11%YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY: $4k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF READING: $3k → 11%YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY: $3k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF READING: $3k → 11%YMCA OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY: $3k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $3k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $3k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $5k → 11%BLANKETS OF HOPE: $20k → 11%CONCERN - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $3k → 11%CONCERN - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $3k → 11%CONCERN - PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 161 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161
104

Total granted

$6.5M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+1%

Still filing today

59%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LV
    LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +353%
  • PS
    Penn State Health
    5× · 2019–2025 · $279k · revenue +184%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2025 · $247k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • CO
    CITY OF CORYDON
    one grant, 2023 · $38k
  • BO
    BLANKETS OF HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 27% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Reading Berks Association of Realtors Inc

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.

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2
Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education
3
Berks Community Action Program Inc

To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.

Community Improvement
4
Adamstown Area Library

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…

Education
5
Berks Arts Council

The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Reading Mental Health Alliance

The greater reading mental health alliance is dedicated to promoting mental health wellness and recovery through advocacy, education and support.

Health
7
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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8
Valley Community Library

Public lending library

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9
Berks Counseling Center Inc

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…

Health
10
Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
11
Reading Hospital

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…

Health
12
Honey Brook Community Library

Operation of a community library in honey brook, pennsylvania.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berks County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

142 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. 142 of the 277 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/142
Grantees still filing
104/142
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $2,010,500 · OtherLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORKPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYINDIAN HILLS FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherINDIAN HILLS FOUNDATIONALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $205,000 · Other+126 more: $1,750,584 · Other+126 morePenn State Health: $279,000 · HealthPenn State H…GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $247,000 · HealthGOOD SHEPHER…READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $81,000 · HealthREADING HOSP…+16 more: $146,854 · Health+16 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $216,500 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $49,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $41,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $26,500 · Arts & CultureREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $25,500 · Arts & CultureBERKS MILITARY HISTORY MUSEUM: $21,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $61,875 · Arts & CultureLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationFleetwood Area Public Library: $51,500 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PA: $50,000 · EducationHAMBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,500 · EducationOLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EducationBrandywine Community Library: $11,000 · EducationEMERGING ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $18,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $190,000 · PhilanthropyBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $11,820 · PhilanthropySAFE BERKS: $32,500 · Human ServicesBERKS ENCORE INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesFamily Guidance Center: $22,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $20,300 · Human ServicesBLANKETS OF HOPE: $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY: $19,000 · Human ServicesConcern - Professional Services for Children Youth And Families: $13,500 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Reading: $13,500 · Human ServicesPENNSYLVANIA DENTAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTER: $7,500 · Human Services+6 more: $21,000 · Human ServicesOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA: $165,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BERKS COUNTY: $21,250 · Youth DevelopmentCAMELOT FOR CHILDREN: $7,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,816,084Health$753,854Arts & Culture$441,375Education$265,000Philanthropy$223,820Human Services$223,300Youth Development$196,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEHIGH VALLEY HEALTH NETWORK: $2,010,500 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetPenn State Health: $279,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $247,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $216,500 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $205,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $190,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA: $165,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOUR CITY READING INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $58,625 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFleetwood Area Public Library: $51,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $49,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetHANNAHS HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $45,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetFRIEND INC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42,125 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBERKS NATURE: $33,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHAMBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY: $32,500 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetSCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION: $32,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE BERKS: $32,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $26,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING: $23,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBERKS ENCORE INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Guidance Center: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF BERKS COUNTY: $21,250 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBERKS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $20,440 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $20,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBLANKETS OF HOPE: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetKUTZTOWN AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $19,500 over 2y, 35% of budgetYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOMENT OF PEACE ADVENTURES: $18,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetOLEY VALLEY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetNEW JOURNEY COMMUNITY OUTREACHINC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKUTZTOWN FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $16,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWACOSA: $14,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConcern - Professional Services for Children Youth And Families: $13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Reading: $13,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBERKS YOUTH CHORUS INC: $13,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $12,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKutztown Community Library Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHCSC - BLOOD CENTER: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Berks County Communit…United Way of Berks C…The Wyomissing Founda…Penn Entertainment Fo…Helping Harvest Fresh…Henry Janssen Foundat…Blue Mountain Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…The Catherine V and M…Firstenergy FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Ppl Foundation
Berks County Community Foundation IncPA118.8× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Breidegam Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Breidegam Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 277 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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