Delaware · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 29
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bergen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $293k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $252k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $271k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $222k | 92% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fund for the City of New York Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Musicares Foundation Inc | $56,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| City Limits News Inc | $46,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Ny Community Fridge Corp | $42,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Sunflower Network Corporation | $31,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Youth Represent Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($72k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bergen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About Bergen Family Foundation
- How much does Bergen Family Foundation give?
- Bergen Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $300,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Bergen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (8%).
- Who are Bergen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Fund for the City of New York Inc ($325k), Musicares Foundation Inc ($57k), Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Bergen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bergen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bergen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc, Pinkerton Foundation.
- Where is Bergen Family Foundation based?
- Bergen Family Foundation is based in DE.
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