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Berger Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MHealth$1.0MEnvironment$809kHuman Services$584kCivil Rights$571kEducation$534kCrime & Legal$392kInternational$382kOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $475k
$5,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION$120,000
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC)$90,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$90,000
JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (JCFS)$75,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS$50,000
CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS$50,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC (ACLU)$35,000
LIHI (LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE)$35,000
EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$35,000
CULTUREWORKS LTD$35,000
THE NIGHT MINISTRY$30,000
MYGRO FARMS$25,000
CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE$25,000
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER INC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $629k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AL OTRO LADO: $20k → 11%TODEC LEGAL CENTER PERRIS: $10k → 11%You Gotta Believe: $15k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $10k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%UpTogether - Family Independence Initiative-National: $3k → 10%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $10k → 20%Tides Center: $3k → 14%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $3k → 10%Groundswell Community Mural Project Inc: $10k → 20%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $50k → 14%The Night Ministry: $50k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $25k → 20%The Night Ministry: $50k → 14%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $25k → 20%THE NIGHTY INISTRY: $35k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $30k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (JCFS): $75k → 14%CONEXION AMERICAS: $5k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation: $60k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (JCFS): $50k → 14%Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation: $50k → 14%UNCOMMON GOOD: $3k → 14%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $13k → 17%Brigid Alliance: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
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LA
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GA
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 117 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
93

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+27%

Still filing today

77%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • JC
    JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +146%
  • C
    CultureWorks
    4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
  • ND
    NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $108k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • N
    NJPAC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • FF
    FND FOR THE AMER INST OF CONCERVA
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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9
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Community College Foundatio…Immigrant Worker SupportDance Arts OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsAddiction Recovery ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterElementary Literacy TutoringLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/170
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,395

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.

04the grantee network

165 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. 165 of the 237 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
161/165
Grantees still filing
107/165
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION — $495,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATIONNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC) — $334,500 · OtherNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC)MYAGRO FARMS — $180,000 · OtherNJPAC — $150,000 · Other+107 more — $2,513,800 · Other+107 moreABORTION CARE NETWORK — $160,500 · HealthABORTION CA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $96,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $67,500 · HealthNURSE-FAMIL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…LIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthLIVEWELL FO…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS — $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN AS…ARTS CRAFTS & THEATRE SAFETY INC — $45,000 · HealthARTS CRAFTS…CALIF CANNABIS RESEARCH MEDICAL GRP — $40,000 · HealthCALIF CANNA…NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC — $30,000 · Health+6 more — $52,500 · Health+6 moreJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $235,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHI…THE NIGHT MINISTRY — $215,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT …CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $50,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AM…YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA …+9 more — $91,000 · Human Services+9 moreCultureWorks — $160,000 · Arts & CultureCultureWor…NXTHVN INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNXTHVN INCThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Henry …NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FE…BALLETX — $35,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETXTHE JAZZ GALLERY — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture500 CAPP STREET FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $117,750 · Arts & Culture+13 moreEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $85,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationCHALLENGE PROGRAM INC — $45,000 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW INC — $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC — $17,500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $15,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE — $15,000 · Education+5 more — $32,500 · EducationNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $107,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Election Innovation & Research — $30,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $13,500 · Civil RightsNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC — $12,500 · Civil Rights+3 more — $15,000 · Civil RightsCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $62,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · InternationalMedical Bridges Inc — $35,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $30,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS — $30,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $20,000 · InternationalJUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC — $17,500 · InternationalTEACHING FOR CHANGE — $10,000 · InternationalEquality Now Inc — $10,000 · International+5 more — $27,000 · International
Other$3,673,300Health$651,500Human Services$626,000Arts & Culture$572,750Education$355,500Civil Rights$328,500International$281,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION — $495,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $235,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY — $215,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMYAGRO FARMS — $180,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK — $160,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCultureWorks — $160,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $107,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $96,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $85,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC — $63,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNXTHVN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $54,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHALLENGE PROGRAM INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetARTS CRAFTS & THEATRE SAFETY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALIF CANNABIS RESEARCH MEDICAL GRP — $40,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation — $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBALLETX — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWags and Walks — $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE — $31,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY — $30,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationPrinceton Area Commun…Brooklyn Community Fo…Rockefeller Philanthr…California Community …New Venture Fund
The New York Community TrustNY23.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Keystone House Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Challenge Program Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Kingdom Trail Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Ccsu Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Berger Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berger Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 237 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines