Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
READING SCIENCE CENTER
READING SCIENCE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,655 to it, the largest being THE GIORGI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($357,706). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $725k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $720k
- Net assets
- $407k
What Reading Science Center does
Mission
The Reading Science Center exists to foster a love of science through exciting and experiential stem education for the greater reading community, especially our youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Reading Science Center is a safe and vibrant learning environment for families and students from berks county and beyond. The center houses over 50 hands-on exhibits encouraging children to discover the wonders of science at their own pace. Additionally, field trips for schools are hosted providing science exploration through their interactive stations and exhibits as well an hour long science investigation led by educators on topics such as ph, electric circuits, states of matter, tools of a scientist, the science of glow, biome habitats, viscosity, etc. Students learn the vocabulary of science, and the scientific method. They each perform their own investigation and take home elements of the lesson for further inquiry. All lessons are aligned with pennsylvania state science curriculum standards.in addition to their in-house programming, Reading Science Center travels to reading school district classrooms for summer programming, as well as after school programming during the academic year. The center produces their own signature sisters in stem after school program for girls in grades four through six designed to encourage and empower these future innovators to pursue careers in…
$412,726 spent$112,998 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $412,726.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $259k to $409k (+58%).
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: 2020 5% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of READING SCIENCE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $22k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SCIENCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 SCIENCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 96% · 2021 47% · 2022 72% · 2023 93% — 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
50% of READING SCIENCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of READING SCIENCE CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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 SCIENCE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like READING SCIENCE CENTER
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READING SCIENCE CENTER: 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 SCIENCE CENTER?
- READING SCIENCE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $719,655 to it, the largest being THE GIORGI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($357,706). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READING SCIENCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $719,655 in grants to READING SCIENCE CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READING SCIENCE CENTER?
- THE GIORGI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $357,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READING SCIENCE CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing