Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Refresh Berks
Refresh Berks (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS H AND MARGARET H CARLOZZI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $111k
What Refresh Berks does
Mission
Refresh Berks offers a mobile shower trailer which provides individuals in Berks County Pennsylvania clean safe shower facilities to persons who may not otherwise have access to this essential service. This is done free of charge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Beginning in the Spring of 2025 Refresh Berks traveled to various locations in Berks County Pennsylvania offering free showers to people who otherwise do not have access to clean safe shower facilities.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,000.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Refresh Berks’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
Refresh Berks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
33% 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 Refresh Berks.
“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.
Where its funders are
Refresh Berks draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Refresh Berks runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Refresh Berks
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Refresh Berks: 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 Refresh Berks?
- Refresh Berks (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being NICHOLAS H AND MARGARET H CARLOZZI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Refresh Berks have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,000 in grants to Refresh Berks.
- Who is the largest funder of Refresh Berks?
- NICHOLAS H AND MARGARET H CARLOZZI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Refresh Berks 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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