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Berdach Otto P Tuw

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$33kHealth$30kHousing & Shelter$7kAnimals$5kYouth Development$3k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION$5,000
THE YARD FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $4k → 11%HOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS: $3k → 14%THE YARD FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FINALLY FAMILY HOMES: $5k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $5k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $3k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $3k → 14%DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Our Own Home

Our own home's mission is to provide life enriching opportunities for those with disabilities as well as those recovering from drug and alcohol dependency, by offering housing, life skills, employment services,and educational services with…

Housing & Shelter
2
Sunny Oaks Inc

Sunny Oaks provides 24 hour residential services, supported living, nutritional, community and training services for individuals with I/DD (Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities) referred by state and county governments. Services…

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3
Candela Group

The mission of the Candela Group is to bring stability and an improved quality of life to our clients and their loved ones affected by mental illness by uniting them with public and private mental health services Our lived experience as…

Health
4
Orange Free Clinic Inc

Orange county free clinics mission is to provide primary medical care to citizens of orange county who do not have resources to obtain these basic health care needs.

Health
5
Wayfinder Family Services

The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…

Human Services
6
Friendly Hand Foundation Dba Friendly House

At Friendly House, our mission is to inspire and empower women of all gender experiences, on their journey to overcoming substance use disorders and mental health challenges. Our program offers a blend of clinical expertise, cultural…

Health
7
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
8
The Midnight Mission

The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…

Human Services
9
Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc

Develop healing communities that are solution-focused, Participant-Driven and Strength-based, where homeless people help themselves - and each other - through their transition from the streets to self-sustainability.

Housing & Shelter
10
Out of the Storm Senior Services Inc

Out of the Storm Senior Housing's mission is to provide seniors with a family-like affordable, and stable living arrangement. Our mission has expanded to include survivors of elder abuse and domestic violence, as well as prevention of…

Housing & Shelter
11
The City Center Transitional Living Inc

The City Center Transitional Living provides transitional living for homeless individuals and families in Ventura, CA, equipping them to rebuild their lives for self sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Downtown Women's Center

Housing, employment, and physical and mental health services for women overcoming homelessness and poverty.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elderhelp of San Diego and the most unlike its peers is Cayenne Wellness Center and Childrens Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INCFINALLY FAMILY HOMES — $5,000 · Human ServicesFINALLY FAMILY HOMESSIMPLY THE BASICS — $5,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLY THE BASICSELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $3,500 · Human ServicesELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGOHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS — $3,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESSTHE YARD FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE YARD FOUNDATION INCWomen Crowned in Glory Safe Passage — $3,000 · Human ServicesWomen Crowned in Glory Safe PassageTHE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS — $4,000 · OtherTHE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY …CALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAPY — $2,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA AQUATIC THERAP…ORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS — $2,000 · OtherORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIE…HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES & MAINTENANCE FOR — $2,000 · OtherHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES & M…JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $2,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'…WAVE ACADEMY — $2,500 · OtherWAVE ACADEMYThe Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation — $2,500 · OtherThe Edwin & Dorothy Baker…GIVING A SMILE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthThe Ohlone Humane Society Inc — $5,000 · AnimalsTransitional Living Services Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $4,000 · Community ImprovementCAYENNE WELLNESS CENTER AND CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$36,000Other$17,500Health$5,000Animals$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Community Improvement$4,000Food & Nutrition$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDISABLED RESOURCES CENTER INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFINALLY FAMILY HOMES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Ohlone Humane Society Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTransitional Living Services Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY THE BASICS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAYENNE WELLNESS CENTER AND CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMELESS NOT TOOTHLESS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen Crowned in Glory Safe Passage — $3,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWAVE ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Berdach Otto P Tuw funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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