How much does Bergen Foundation give?

Bergen Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $307,000, out of $547,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.

What does Bergen Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (9%), Health (6%), Arts & Culture (6%).

Who are Bergen Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Fisher House Foundation Inc ($100k), Ocean Futures Society Inc ($85k), The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($80k).

Does Bergen Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bergen 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 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Bergen Foundation based?

Bergen Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Bergen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$548k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 30
Itemized grants FY2024: 27
Organizations funded FY2023: 4%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $307k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 31; FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $15M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations Bergen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	30	$307k	10%
FY2023	27	$306k	4%
FY2022	29	$342k	3%
FY2021	31	$401k	n/a

89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$245kHealth$183kArts & Culture$157kReligion$150kAnimals$122kHousing & Shelter$100kEnvironment$90kFood & Nutrition$80kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fisher House Foundation Inc	$100,000	4	0%
Ocean Futures Society Inc	$85,000	4	7%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$80,000	4	0%
Museum of Broadcast Communications	$77,000	2	22%
American Heart Association Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Christian Herald Association Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Los Angeles Mission Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Rescue Mission Alliance	$40,000	4	0%
Children's Institute Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences	$40,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Bergen Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fisher House Foundation Inc	$100,000	4	0%
Ocean Futures Society Inc	$85,000	4	7%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$80,000	4	0%
Museum of Broadcast Communications	$77,000	2	22%
American Heart Association Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Christian Herald Association Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Los Angeles Mission Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Rescue Mission Alliance	$40,000	4	0%
Children's Institute Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences	$40,000	4	0%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc	$40,000	4	0%
The New York Times Communities Fund	$40,000	4	0%
God's Love We Deliver Inc	$40,000	4	0%
Union Rescue Mission	$40,000	4	0%
ABC Hopes Inc	$40,000	4	6%
Meals on Wheels of West Los Angeles Inc	$40,000	4	2%
Monrovia Football Academy Inc	$30,000	3	85%
National Coalition for the Homeless	$20,000	2	1%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc	$20,000	4	0%
The Blind Childrens Center Inc	$20,000	4	0%
International Childrens Academy	$20,000	2	n/a
New Yorkers for Children Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Oceana Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Claire's Place Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	1%
Lange Foundation	$2,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($394k), not named here.

Bergen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Network for GoodDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

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

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About Bergen Foundation

How much does Bergen Foundation give?: Bergen Foundation reported 30 itemized grants totaling $307,000, out of $547,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Bergen Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (9%), Health (6%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Bergen Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Fisher House Foundation Inc ($100k), Ocean Futures Society Inc ($85k), The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($80k).
Does Bergen Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bergen 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 Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Bergen Foundation based?: Bergen Foundation is based in CA.