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Bergen Family 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.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Philanthropy$371kArts & Culture$199kHealth$84kEnvironment$83kEducation$69kFood & Nutrition$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$56kCrime & Legal$42kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$80,000
NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP$40,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC$40,000
MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC$15,000
SURFRIDER FOUNDATION$15,000
YOUTH REPRESENT INC$10,000
CITY LIMITS NEWS INC$10,000
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,500
TORREY PINES ASSOCIATION$7,500
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC$7,500
THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY$7,000
WNET$5,000
DUMBO DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC$5,000
STUDENT PRESS LAW CENTER INC$5,000
NEW YORK CARES INC$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FARMLINK PROJECT: $3k → 14%FARMLINK PROJECT: $2k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $7k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $7k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $3k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$866k · 28 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
16

Total granted

$866k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +133%
  • TS
    THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +18%
  • CL
    CITY LIMITS NEWS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • F
    FJC
    one grant, 2022 · $71k
  • RR
    ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -26%
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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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City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
3
New York Focus Inc

New york focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the empire state.(continued on scheduleo)launched in october of 2020, new york focus aims to help make government more transparent by publishing…

Education
4
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
7
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism Inc

The foundation's mission is to produce, support and promote high-quality journalism focused on underserved issue and focus areas in order to educate and inform the public and ensure widespread, ongoing public access to educational,…

Arts & Culture
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
New York Road Runners Inc

As a new york city based nonprofit, we're dedicated to transforming the health and well-being of our communities through inclusive and accessible running experiences, empowering all to achieve their potential.

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12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Start Lighthouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Elementary Literacy TutoringWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%55%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,710

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 52 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
22/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $325,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INCBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,500 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $14,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFJC — $71,000 · OtherFJCBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $32,500 · OtherBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY IN…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK — $27,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW…NEW GARDEN FRIENDS SCHOOL INC — $17,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $26,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $29,500 · OtherYOUTH REPRESENT INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $17,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $22,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC — $11,300 · Other+17 more — $85,100 · Other+17 moreMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $56,500 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUND…ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureROCK & ROLL HAL…PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION HA…THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureWNET — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFORCA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $9,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $48,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $14,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $7,700 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP — $42,500 · Food & NutritionTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionVINEGAR HILL FOOD PANTRY INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionSUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION — $31,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDUMBO DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more — $500 · Public Safety & DisasterCITY LIMITS NEWS INC — $46,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$370,500Other$338,900Arts & Culture$145,500Environment$80,700Food & Nutrition$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$46,500Public Benefit$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $325,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC — $56,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY LIMITS NEWS INC — $46,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP — $42,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $32,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER NETWORK CORPORATION — $31,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $29,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF METRO NEW YORK AND WESTERN NEW YORK — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY — $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GARDEN FRIENDS SCHOOL INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUMBO DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNAVIGATE THE MAZE TO ACHIEVEMENT INC — $11,300 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE — $11,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT PRESS LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $7,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTorrey Pines Association DBA Torrey Pines Conservancy — $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOVA Hope for Haiti Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORCA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL AMBULANCE CORPS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS FORWARD PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPowherful Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC — $500 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.

The New York Communit…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Pinkerton FoundationBrooklyn Community Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bessemer Giving F…Viking Global Foundat…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Boston Foundation Inc
The New York Community TrustNY17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Pinkerton Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc

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 Bergen Family Foundation 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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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 52 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.

    Source object · view filing

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