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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 FY2025still arriving
97
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.3MHealth$1.0MEnvironment$809kHuman Services$584kCivil Rights$571kEducation$534kCrime & Legal$392kInternational$382kOther$0
02FY2025 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k59 grants · $218k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $522k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
$5,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC)$240,350
JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (JCFS)$135,000
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION$75,000
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$60,000
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM GARDEN & LIBRARY$50,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$40,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS$35,000
MATTHEW WALKER COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER INC$25,000
LAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ$25,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$25,000
THE NIGHT MINISTRY$25,000
CULTUREWORKS LTD$20,000
LIHI (LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE)$20,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $815k) 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 its 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%Tides Center: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $10k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $3k → 10%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $10k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%UpTogether - Family Independence Initiative-National: $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%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $13k → 20%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $30k → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $25k → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION (JCFS): $135k → 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%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $10k → 17%Brigid Alliance: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 136 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

136 repeat relationships: 88 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
97

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $370k · revenue +146%
  • C
    CultureWorks
    5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +1% · 29% of their budget
  • MW
    Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • N
    NJPAC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • FF
    FND FOR THE AMER INST OF CONCERVA
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • KE
    KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -62%
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.

04Its 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.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
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
3
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
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
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
6
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
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
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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9
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
10
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
11
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rainbow Railroad Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

168 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 168 of the 246 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/168
Grantees still filing
106/168
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC): $574,850 · OtherNEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NJPAC)FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION: $570,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATIONMYAGRO FARMS: $195,000 · OtherNJPAC: $150,000 · Other+109 more: $2,869,300 · Other+109 moreJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $370,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH CHIL…THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $240,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT M…CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $62,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AME…YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesYOU GOTTA B…+7 more: $85,000 · Human Services+7 moreABORTION CARE NETWORK: $220,500 · HealthABORTION CA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $96,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS: $85,000 · HealthAMERICAN AS…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $70,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $67,500 · HealthNURSE-FAMIL…LIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · HealthLIVEWELL FO…ARTS CRAFTS & THEATRE SAFETY INC: $50,000 · HealthARTS CRAFTS…CALIF CANNABIS RESEARCH MEDICAL GRP: $50,000 · HealthCALIF CANNA…NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $35,000 · Health+6 more: $67,500 · Health+6 moreCultureWorks: $180,000 · Arts & CultureCultureWo…NXTHVN INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNXTHVN IN…BALLETX: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBALLETXThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Henry…NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT F…THE JAZZ GALLERY: $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE JAZZ …PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $27,500 · Arts & Culture500 CAPP STREET FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $102,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · EducationCHALLENGE PROGRAM INC: $60,000 · EducationGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $36,000 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $20,000 · EducationTHE CONTRIBUTOR INC: $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $20,000 · Education+6 more: $48,500 · EducationAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $107,500 · Civil RightsThe Center for Election Innovation & Research: $35,000 · 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: $20,000 · Civil RightsCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $77,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · InternationalMedical Bridges Inc: $40,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS: $35,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $35,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalJUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC: $17,500 · International+7 more: $47,000 · International
Other$4,359,150Human Services$802,500Health$801,500Arts & Culture$670,000Education$451,500Civil Rights$343,500International$316,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION: $570,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetJEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $240,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $220,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMYAGRO FARMS: $195,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCultureWorks: $180,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetMatthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $107,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $102,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $96,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS: $85,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $68,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $67,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $62,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $62,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIVEWELL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetNXTHVN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHALLENGE PROGRAM INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $54,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBALLETX: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARTS CRAFTS & THEATRE SAFETY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetThe Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIF CANNABIS RESEARCH MEDICAL GRP: $50,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $44,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWags and Walks: $42,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMIGHTY MUTTS INC: $40,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $37,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetLAS AMERICAS IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $37,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JAZZ GALLERY: $37,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS WRITE NOW INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MYAGRO FARMS ↗
  • Who funds CultureWorks ↗
  • Who funds Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS ↗
  • Who funds LOW INCOME HOUSING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds LIVEWELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NXTHVN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BUCKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds KARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS ↗
  • Who funds BALLETX ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 246 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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