New York · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 97
- Grants FY2025
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $240,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 95 to 118
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 24
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Berger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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 | 97 | $1.3M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 95 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 103 | $1.3M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Advancement in Conservation | $570,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation | $370,000 | 5 | 12% |
| The Night Ministry | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Abortion Care Network | $220,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Myagro Farms | $195,000 | 6 | 0% |
| CultureWorks | $180,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Day Laborer Organizing Network | $107,500 | 5 | 0% |
| East Tennessee State University Foundation | $102,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 169 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Berger Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 160 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · The Ford Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · California Community Foundation · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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About Berger Family Foundation
- How much does Berger Family Foundation give?
- Berger Family Foundation reported 97 grants totaling $1,300,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 118 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Berger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (15%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Berger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foundation for Advancement in Conservation ($570k), Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation ($370k), The Night Ministry ($240k).
- Does Berger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% 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 The New York Community Trust, The Ford Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is Berger Family Foundation based?
- Berger Family Foundation is based in NY.
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