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.

Bergen Foundation

Bergen Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it fundsRead

02Its granteesRead

03Its fieldRead

01What it funds

0189% 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

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 30 grants below total $307,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $547,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $240,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $36k
$10k–50k22 grants · $271k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Children's Hospital of LA Foundation	$25,000
The Fisher House Foundation	$25,000
ASPCA	$20,000
Kabbalah Centre	$20,000
KCI	$11,000
Rescue Mission Alliance	$10,000
Children's Institute, Inc.	$10,000
Los Angeles Mission	$10,000
Meals On Wheels of West Los Angeles	$10,000
Monrovia Football Academy	$10,000
American Heart Association	$10,000
NY Times Neediest Cases Fund	$10,000
ABC Hopes, Inc.	$10,000
Ocean Futures Society	$10,000
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences	$10,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 31 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

-18%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +43%
TA
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
AH
American Heart Association Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +33%

Funded once

MF
Monrovia Football Academy
one grant, 2021 · $10k
CP
CLAIRE'S PLACE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -18%

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.

03Its field

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals

Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster

Media Matters for America

Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.

Education

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Yorkers for Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

14/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$764,000Human Services$162,000Arts & Culture$97,000Environment$90,000Health$82,500Animals$80,000Food & Nutrition$80,000

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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home