Massachusetts · Private foundation
Berger 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.
- $25k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $240k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Berger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 12 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $24k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $20k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $25k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $43k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $30k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $40k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $39k | 9% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Book Festival Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $24,120 | 7 | 0% |
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $14,425 | 9 | 0% |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $13,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Servings Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Protect Our Defenders Foundation % Russell H Miller | $8,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berger 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Berger Family Foundation
- How much does Berger Family Foundation give?
- Berger Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $24,551 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Berger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Civil Rights (15%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Berger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Book Festival Inc ($65k), Museum of Fine Arts ($24k), Huntington Theatre Co Inc ($17k).
- Does Berger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berger 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 Berger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation.
- Where is Berger Family Foundation based?
- Berger Family Foundation is based in MA.
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