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· Private foundation

The Wyomissing Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.6MEducation$1.6MHousing & Shelter$399kHuman Services$360kHealth$359kRecreation & Sports$201kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $438k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $779k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY$201,000
HELPING HARVEST$100,000
READING PUBLIC MUSEUM$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
SCHUYLKILL RIVER GREENWAYS ASSOCATON$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $15k → 9%MAKE IT HOME: $15k → 8%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $25k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $35k → 11%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $20k → 11%CLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE: $10k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $35k → 11%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF READING: $20k → 11%VETERANS MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $10k → 11%BRING THE CHANGE: $5k → 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

VT
ID
NY
MA
NV
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 42 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
98

Total granted

$6.8M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +38%
  • BA
    Barrio Alegria Co
    7× · 2018–2024 · $622k · revenue +565% · 64% of their budget
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $535k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BC
    BERKS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • TH
    THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue -8%
  • HD
    HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Connections Work

Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.

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7
Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

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8
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
9
Berks Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

The coalition develops and implements strategies, coordinates resources and targets efforts to end homelessness in berks county.

Human Services
10
Berkshire County Head Start Child Development Program Inc

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.

Education
11
Ymca of Reading & Berks County

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…

Human Services
12
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
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

81 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. 81 of the 160 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
57/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING PUBLIC LIBRARY: $546,532 · OtherREADING PUBLIC LIBRARYWEST READING ELM STREET: $431,810 · OtherWEST READING ELM STREETREADING SCHOOL DISTRICT: $365,048 · OtherREADING SCHOOL DISTRICTALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $339,000 · OtherALVERNIA UNIVERSITYOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $158,500 · Other+108 more: $2,679,534 · Other+108 moreBarrio Alegria Co: $622,465 · Arts & CultureBarrio Alegria CoFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $535,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR THE REA…READING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $255,000 · Arts & CultureREADING MUSICAL FOUNDA…GOGGLE WORKS: $98,400 · Arts & CultureBERKS ARTS COUNCIL: $98,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $94,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $63,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $118,750 · Arts & Culture+7 moreUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $1,592,350 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BERKS …BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $105,500 · PhilanthropyBERKS COUNTY COMMUNI…+2 more: $40,017 · PhilanthropyWEST READING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION: $151,216 · Community ImprovementBERKS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION: $110,000 · Community ImprovementOUR CITY READING INC: $100,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementBERKS LATINO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $166,500 · EducationALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $133,500 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,700 · EducationBERKS ENCORE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAFE BERKS: $35,000 · Human ServicesCLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFamily Guidance Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Reading: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesPLANTING HOPE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA: $15,000 · Human ServicesURYADIS VILLAGE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCo County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network: $38,500 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $25,000 · HealthREADING HOSPITAL: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · Health
Other$4,520,424Arts & Culture$1,884,615Philanthropy$1,737,867Community Improvement$531,216Education$340,700Human Services$220,000Health$203,500

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $1,592,350 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBarrio Alegria Co: $622,465 over 7y, 64% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $535,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $339,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBERKS LATINO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $166,500 over 4y, 40% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $158,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWEST READING COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION: $151,216 over 3y, 27% of budgetBERKS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $133,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION: $110,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $105,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOUR CITY READING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOGGLE WORKS: $98,400 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBERKS ARTS COUNCIL: $98,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $94,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING: $80,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetREADING RECREATION COMMISSION: $78,242 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBERKS ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $63,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBERKS AREA MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSN: $55,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCo County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network: $38,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBERKS ENCORE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE BERKS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBERKS NATURE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCLARE OF ASSISI HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBUILDING GOODNESS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC: $28,818 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS: $27,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetRock Hollow Woods Environmental Education LC: $25,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetDAYSPRING HOMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Guidance Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADING HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMISSING PUBLIC LIBRARY: $23,010 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetIM ABLE FOUNDATION: $20,017 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Children's Home of Reading: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINVISION HUMAN SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAFE ESPERANZA: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BERKS COUNTY: $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% 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 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 ↗

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…The Breidegam Family …United Way of Berks C…Henry Janssen Foundat…Penn Entertainment Fo…Helping Harvest Fresh…Blue Mountain Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Firstenergy FoundationThe Catherine V and M…Berkshire Charitable …The Kindness Coalition
Berks County Community Foundation IncPA88.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wyomissing Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wyomissing Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
29report 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 160 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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