· Private foundation
The Wyomissing Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $438k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $779k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY | $201,000 |
| READING PUBLIC MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| HELPING HARVEST | $100,000 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA START UP | $100,000 |
| READING PUBLIC MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| READING PUBLIC LIBRARY | $56,500 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| BLWDC | $54,000 |
| BARRIO ALEGRIA | $52,400 |
| PA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATON | $42,700 |
| READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $30,000 |
| READING SCIENCE CENTER | $28,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| GOGGLEWORKS | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $190k) 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k 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 · $1.6M · revenue +38%
- BABarrio Alegria Co7× · 2018–2024 · $622k · revenue +565% · 64% of their budget
- FFFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $535k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BCBERKS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATIONone grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -8%
- HDHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
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 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.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
The greater reading mental health alliance is dedicated to promoting mental health wellness and recovery through advocacy, education and support.
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…
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
Public lending 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…
The coalition develops and implements strategies, coordinates resources and targets efforts to end homelessness in berks county.
To enhance opportunities for success by inspiring each child's love of learning, partnering with families, advocating for equity, and fostering a connection to community.
The ymca of reading and berks county's mission is to put judeo-christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the ymca of reading and berks county is a cause-driven organization that…
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
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 22 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) — 9% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 160 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 Barrio Alegria Co ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKS LATINO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WEST READING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY READING INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GOGGLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds BERKS ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds READING RECREATION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds BERKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds READING SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BERKS AREA MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSN ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Breidegam Family Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · Henry Janssen Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Blue Mountain Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · The Kindness Coalition
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 Wyomissing Foundation Inc 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.
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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.