Gabelsville Athletic Association Inc
Boyertown, PA · EIN 23-1438521. Reported 49 grants totalling $255,125 to 41 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Gabelsville Athletic Association Inc, the IRS classifies it under recreation & sports rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE N50) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 44% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 19% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $1,500. Half of what it reported fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $57,925. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boyertown Area Midget Baseball League Inc | Boyertown, PA | $111,175 | 4 | 2 | 2023 |
| Valor Clinic Foundation | Brodheadsvlle, PA | $59,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pine Forge Athletic Association | Boyertown, PA | $12,025 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bechtelsville Recreation Association | Bechtelsville, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stone's Hearing AIDS Service | Pottstown, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Berks Regional Police Dept | Boiyertown, PA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Area Multi-Service Inc | Boyertown, PA | $3,801 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Rod and Gun Club | Boyertown, PA | $3,500 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Optimist International | Boyertown, PA | $3,200 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reading Motorcycle Club | Oley, PA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Veterans Island Project at Memorial Park | Pottstown, PA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keystone Water Rescue | Boiyertown, PA | $2,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Building a Better Boyertown | Boyertown, PA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Berks Fire Department | Barto, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gilbertsville Fire & Rescue Company | Gilbertsville, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Survivors Cancer Foundation | Royersford, PA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pine Forge Sportsmans Club | Pine Forge, PA | $1,904 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wreaths Across America | Columbia Fls, ME | $1,890 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles | Boyertown, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Exeter Youth Football & Cheer Inc | Reading, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Moose Knuckle Softball | King of Prussia, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reading Hot Stovers Inc | Mohnton, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Central Pa | Hershey, PA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State Theater Preservation Society | Boyertown, PA | $1,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Area Wrestling Association | Boyertown, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange | Draper, UT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cuddle Bear Drive | East Berlin, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Most Blessed Sacrement Church | Boyertown, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Thunder in the Valley Outreach Inc | Douglassville, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wilson Education Foundation | West Lawn, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Two Bit Farm | Boyertown, PA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Goodwill Fire Company | Bally, PA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Legion Poat 626 | Birdsboro, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Berks Gymanastic Team Inc | Reading, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Earl Elementary PTO Inc | Boyertown, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ladies Auxiliary of the Friendship Hook & Ladder Co No 1 | Boyertown, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pike Township Sportsmens Assn | Oley, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rotary Club of Boyertown | Boiyertown, PA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Area Schools Music League | Boyertown, PA | $280 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boyertown Area Historical Society | Boyertown, PA | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
3 of 41 (7%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Boyertown Midget Baseball League
CHARITABLE MISSION OF ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 44 | $150,625 | $1,500 |
| 2023 | 3 | $75,000 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | $29,500 | $14,750 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $1,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Gabelsville Athletic Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 2 N Funk Road, Boyertown, PA, 19512.
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