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GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,750 to it, the largest being GREATER READING CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($303,619). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$596k
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.1M) Expenses 112 ($2.2M) Net assets 92 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 98 ($2.1M) Expenses 112 ($2.2M) Net assets 125 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 85 ($1.8M) Expenses 77 ($1.5M) Net assets 150 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 83 ($1.8M) Expenses 80 ($1.6M) Net assets 163 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 82 ($1.7M) Expenses 85 ($1.7M) Net assets 150 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 90 ($1.9M) Expenses 97 ($1.9M) Net assets 159 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 87 ($1.9M) Expenses 90 ($1.8M) Net assets 169 ($3.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (87)Expenses (90)Net assets (169)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$166k
’17
−$80k
’18
−$110k
’19
$287k
’20
$208k
’21
$59k
’22
$12k
’23
$103k
’24
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $65k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
1
1
3
1
1

From the IRS filings of GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 68% · 2020 85% · 2021 100% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation91%Greater Reading Economic Partnership87%Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce85%Greater Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce84%Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce84%Greater Susquehanna Valley Chamber of Commerce84%Greater Wilkes-Barre Growth Partnership83%Northern Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce83%

Nationally

Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation91%Greater Reading Economic Partnership87%Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce87%Grand Island Area Chamber of Commerce Inc86%Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce85%Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce85%Greater Sebring Chamber of Commerce85%Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce85%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Berks County Chamber Foundation · exempt
  • Greater Reading Chamber & Economic Development Corporation · exempt
  • Greater Berks Development Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY?
GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $595,750 to it, the largest being GREATER READING CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($303,619). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $595,750 in grants to GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY?
GREATER READING CHAMBER & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $303,619 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER READING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing