Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
READING RECREATION COMMISSION
READING RECREATION COMMISSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,216 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($188,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $774k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Reading Recreation Commission does
Mission
To provide quality recreation programs and facilities to the residents of the city of reading with an emphasis on youth programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Schlegel park pool is one of the largest public pools in berks county. Daily or seasonal passes may be purchased. Amenities include pool, pickleball court, basketball court, pavilion, picnic tables and concession stands.
$418,449 spent$176,823 earned by the program33% of program spendingProvided tennis program into multiple city locations and schools; held special tennis events and clinics. Also provided volleyball, basketball, & other programs.
$303,314 spent$128,171 earned by the program24% of program spendingOperated multiple playground and afterschool sites along with special events like wacky water wednesday and movie nights.
$381,600 spent$161,252 earned by the program30% of program spendingProvided pavilion, building and equipment rentals
$169,819 spent$71,760 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,273,182.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $252k to $692k (+175%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 35% · 2020 10% · 2021 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of READING RECREATION COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Daphne Klahr
Executive director
Board chair
Donald Taddei Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $69k → $85k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of READING RECREATION COMMISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 17 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
READING RECREATION COMMISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund READING RECREATION COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 61% · 2019 54% · 2020 46% · 2021 47% · 2022 41% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of READING RECREATION COMMISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of READING RECREATION COMMISSION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $373k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
READING RECREATION COMMISSION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like READING RECREATION COMMISSION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Reading School District · exempt
- City of Reading · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READING RECREATION COMMISSION: 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 READING RECREATION COMMISSION?
- READING RECREATION COMMISSION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $774,216 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($188,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does READING RECREATION COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $774,216 in grants to READING RECREATION COMMISSION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING RECREATION COMMISSION?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $188,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING RECREATION COMMISSION 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.
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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 17 funders 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. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing