Pennsylvania · Public charity
United Way of Berks County Inc
United way of berks county improves lives by inspiring collaboration, volunteerism and financial support to build a stronger community.
- $7.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $99,876
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,037,874
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations United Way of Berks County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k 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 | 47 | $7.5M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $9.1M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $9.0M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $9.6M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $9.6M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $8.0M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $7.5M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $7.4M | 26% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $9,157,064 | 9 | 36% |
| YMCA of Reading & Berks County | $4,596,813 | 9 | 7% |
| Family Guidance Center | $4,031,087 | 9 | 18% |
| Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania | $3,379,990 | 9 | 10% |
| Tower Health at Home Fka Tower Health at Home - Berks | $3,135,378 | 9 | 6% |
| Centro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc | $2,565,845 | 9 | 22% |
| Opportunity House | $2,546,636 | 9 | 5% |
| Connections Work | $2,340,823 | 9 | 21% |
| Hawk Mountain Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $2,162,803 | 7 | 21% |
| Safe Berks | $1,825,495 | 9 | 7% |
Show all 111 grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Berks County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Blue Mountain Foundation · Berks Coalition to End Homelessness Inc · Council on Chemical Abuse Inc · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Berks County Inc
- How much does United Way of Berks County Inc give?
- United Way of Berks County Inc reported 49 grants totaling $7,624,785 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Berks County Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Youth Development (21%), Health (16%).
- Who are United Way of Berks County Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa ($9.2M), YMCA of Reading & Berks County ($4.6M), Family Guidance Center ($4.0M).
- Does United Way of Berks County Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Berks County Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
- Where is United Way of Berks County Inc based?
- United Way of Berks County Inc is based in PA.
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