· 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.
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 $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLIVET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF READING & BERKS COUNTY | $1,037,874 |
| YMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY | $511,165 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER | $453,355 |
| EASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $374,436 |
| TOWER HEALTH AT HOME BERKS | $346,704 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $329,076 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL | $307,956 |
| CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC | $276,305 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY OF READING CORPS | $274,383 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF BERKS COUNTY | $274,310 |
| SAFE BERKS | $216,568 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - PA RIVERS CHAPTER | $191,476 |
| FRIEND INC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $172,441 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $170,000 |
| THE OUTREACH PROGRAM | $161,172 |
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, $12.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 48 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- OBOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA9× · 2017–2025 · $9.2M · revenue +1% · 36% of their budget
- YOYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +33%
- FGFamily Guidance Center9× · 2017–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +53%
Funded once
- OCOUR CITY READING INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATIONone grant, 2022 · $405k · revenue -8% · 26% of their budget
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS-TRI COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.
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.
United way of berks county improves lives by inspiring collaboration, volunteerism and financial support to build a stronger community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Berks County Pa and the most unlike its peers is The Wyomissing Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 145 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 OLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Family Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS WORK ↗
- Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds FRIEND INC COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BERKS ENCORE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERKS COUNTY PA ↗
- Who funds GREATER READING MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF READING-BERKS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Co County Wellness Services DBA Berks Aids Network ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS LATINO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF READING PA INC ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BERKS COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN AREA MULTI-SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY ↗
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 · 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
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 United Way of Berks County 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.
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.