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Berger Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$552k
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 FY2018–2025.

Education$6.0MHuman Services$2.0MInternational$1.6MAnimals$695kArts & Culture$660kHealth$484kHousing & Shelter$156kRecreation & Sports$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $333k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $802k
$20,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPAY NEUTER IMPERATIVE PROJECT$552,248
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$250,000
SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL$175,000
PBS FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICARES$125,000
Individual grant recipient$125,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING$100,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION$100,000
HOMEWORKS TRENTON$100,000
CARVER CENTER$100,000
LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION$100,000
WATERSIDE SCHOOL$100,000
WNYC$100,000
HORIZONS AT BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$75,000
KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION$50,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATHWAYS INC: $15k → 13%RIVER HOUSE: $10k → 14%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $25k → 7%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $100k → 9%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $10k → 7%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION: $100k → 10%LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION: $10k → 10%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%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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IL
MI
NY
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 34 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
7

Total granted

$11M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-3%

Still filing today

79%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • WS
    WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +52%
  • GA
    GREENWICH ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +14%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -57% · 43% of their budget
  • TK
    THE KERN PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +165% · 43% of their budget
  • WA
    WORLD AFFAIRS FORUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -38% · 79% of their budget

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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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
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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4
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
5
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
10
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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12
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Missionary Organi…Government Accountability R…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Public Library SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersHomeless Services & ShelterUnited Way FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersChild and Family ServicesIndependent K-8 Schools
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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%8%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr20%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr20%25%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,391

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

52 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. 52 of the 67 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
19/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $2,100,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $1,200,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $700,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $475,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL — $210,000 · Education+8 more — $590,000 · Education+8 moreSPAY NEUTER IMPERATIVE PROJECT — $552,248 · OtherSPAY NEUTER IMPERATIVE P…CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER — $450,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENT…KIDS IN CRISIS INC — $311,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCIndividual grant recipient — $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…CARVER CENTER — $200,000 · OtherCARVER CENTERMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $160,000 · OtherMARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+27 more — $616,375 · Other+27 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,025,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOU…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …Save The Children Federation Inc — $205,110 · InternationalSave The Child…+1 more — $10,508 · InternationalPART OF THE SOLUTION — $975,000 · Food & NutritionPART OF T…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $300,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $200,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKieve Wavus Education Inc — $150,000 · Human ServicesLOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind — $35,417 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $36,019 · Human ServicesGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $150,000 · HealthGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · Health
Education$5,575,000Other$2,614,623International$1,540,618Food & Nutrition$975,000Arts & Culture$655,000Human Services$451,436Health$170,000

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 budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $2,100,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $1,200,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,025,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION — $975,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $700,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $475,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $311,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL — $210,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $205,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFordham University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetMurphy's Paw Rescue Inc — $82,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KERN PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS FORUM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNo One Left Behind — $35,417 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC — $20,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRITA CROCKETT BEACH SPORTS ACADEMY — $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MARTIN COUNTY INC — $11,019 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $10,905 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $10,508 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBARBARAS HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEquine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Resource Foundati…Panwy Foundation IncClaire L Helsing Foun…Brothers Brook Founda…The per and Astrid He…Simmons Family Founda…Oppenheim Family Fund…Lone Pine Foundation …The Near and Far Asso…Malkin Fund IncCornelia Cogswell Ros…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Resource Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Brothers Brook Foundation · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Oppenheim Family Fund Inc · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation 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 Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
  • HomeWorks Trenton — 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Inc?

Find your warmest path to Berger Family Foundation Inc 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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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