Pennsylvania · 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.
- $550k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $530k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Kindness Coalition funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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 | 14 | $550k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $631k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $688k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $553k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $420k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $475k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $591k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Berks County Inc | $915,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Safe Berks | $772,667 | 6 | 12% |
| Opportunity House | $325,085 | 6 | 1% |
| Alvernia University | $288,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harrisburg Area YMCA | $260,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hannahs Hope Ministries Inc | $236,144 | 4 | 14% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $225,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Berks Encore Inc | $213,750 | 2 | 6% |
| Im Able Foundation | $201,254 | 6 | 27% |
| Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | $165,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kindness Coalition supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Kindness Coalition
- How much does The Kindness Coalition give?
- The Kindness Coalition reported 14 grants totaling $549,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Kindness Coalition fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Philanthropy (23%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are The Kindness Coalition's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Berks County Inc ($915k), Safe Berks ($773k), Opportunity House ($325k).
- Does The Kindness Coalition fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kindness Coalition 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 Kindness Coalition?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Breidegam Family Foundation, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc, Penn Entertainment Foundation.
- Where is The Kindness Coalition based?
- The Kindness Coalition is based in PA.
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