· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| OTHER UNDER 1000 | $3,950 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $3,000 |
| CHILMARK TOWN AFFAIRS COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| HARBOR HOMES MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $2,000 |
| PEREGRINE FUND | $1,500 |
| YMCA OF MARTHAS VINEYARD | $1,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDAT | $1,101 |
| HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $1,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRESCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PLAN A HEALTH | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +108%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS7× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +29%- YOYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +418%
Funded once
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +127%- REREPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +123%
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Peregrine Fund Inc. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR DEFENDERS FOUNDATION % RUSSELL H MILLER ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILMARK TOWN AFFAIRS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN A HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILMARK PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
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
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 Berger 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
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.