· Private foundation
Archie W & Grace Berry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATION FOR COLONIAL THEATRE | $125,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $75,000 |
| FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST | $75,000 |
| CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA | $75,000 |
| MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA | $60,000 |
| LUDWIG'S CORNER HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WAYNE ART CENTER | $40,000 |
| AUDUBON PENNSYLVANIA | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SINGING CITY | $25,000 |
| WAYNE ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| PATIENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK | $25,000 |
| COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| MONTGOMERY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| CHARLESTOWN PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWayne Art Center9× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +59%
- CSCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +12%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MCMANDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AAADOLESCENT AWARENESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- NLNatural Lands Trust Incone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -31%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.
To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.
The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.
Cosmic symphony nurtures the performance of high quality orchestral music, showcasing southern maryland talent.
Offering Professional Music Concerts
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
Laws of the state of new jersey. the mission of the organization is to perform choral masterworks and other works of the choral literature with energy, passion, and uncompromising artistic excellence. the organization believes in the power…
New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Wayne Art Center ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Ludwig's Corner Horse Show Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
- Who funds PATIENT EMPOWERMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL SOLTANE ↗
- Who funds COATESVILLE YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES ↗
- Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Presser Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Connelly Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Archie W & Grace Berry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Archie W & Grace Berry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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