· Private foundation
The Cynthia and Jim Boscov 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| HOSTS FOR HOSPITALS | $10,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $5,000 |
| CARON TREATMENT CENTERS | $5,000 |
| RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OLIVET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA | $5,000 |
| GOGGLE WORKS | $1,000 |
| SAFE BERKS | $1,000 |
| READING SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +10%
- AUALVERNIA UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +27%
- HFHosts for Hospitals3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +75%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +4%- SMSOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCAone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
- SRSCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Hosts for Hospitals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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
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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hosts for Hospitals ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds READING SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
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: The Breidegam Family Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Hammel Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Firstenergy Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Kindness Coalition · Pf Foundation Inc
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 Cynthia and Jim Boscov 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% 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.
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