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Berger Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 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, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Individual grant recipient$125,000
AMERICARES$125,000
HOMEWORKS TRENTON$100,000
WATERSIDE SCHOOL$100,000
PART OF THE SOLUTION$100,000
WNYC$100,000
CARVER CENTER$100,000
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING$100,000
LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION$100,000
HORIZONS AT BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$75,000
GREENWICH ACADEMY$50,000
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 (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. Its 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%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $10k → 7%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $100k → 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
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

ME
IL
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
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

  • 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
  • PH
    PACIFIC HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -13%
  • TK
    THE KERN PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +165% · 43% of their budget
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
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300,000 over 4y, 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 budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHomeWorks Trenton: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFordham University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FIRST IN EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KERN PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS FORUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $35,417 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetPATHWAYS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRITA CROCKETT BEACH SPORTS ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 23% 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 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 budgetRIVER HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMOLLY'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 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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