· Private foundation
The Kindness Coalition
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 $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $115,000 |
| BERKS ENCORE | $70,000 |
| HANNAH'S HOPE MINISTRIES | $57,000 |
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF READING & BERKS COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ALOPECIA PROJECT | $41,000 |
| IM ABLE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD | $40,000 |
| HARRISBURG AREA YMCA | $40,000 |
| BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC | $38,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA | $20,000 |
| SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| KEYSTONE KIDSPACE | $10,000 |
| CO-COUNTY WELLNESS SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PAPPUS HOUSE | $8,500 |
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, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 INC8× · 2017–2024 · $915k · revenue +38%
- SBSAFE BERKS6× · 2017–2023 · $773k · revenue +55%
- OHOPPORTUNITY HOUSE6× · 2019–2025 · $325k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINCone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -52%
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.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
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…
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…
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…
As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
To advance the health of our community by providing inclusive, high quality and compassionate care.
Provision of charitable healthcare services
Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity House and the most unlike its peers is Alvernia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARRISBURG AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds HANNAHS HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds IM ABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ALOPECIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARRISBURGINC ↗
- Who funds PAPPUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOMELAND CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA 30 DAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE KIDSPACE ↗
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 · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Capital Region · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Firstenergy Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals
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 Kindness Coalition 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.
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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