· Private foundation
Berger North 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL SPECIAL VICTIMS INCORPORATED | $240,000 |
| TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING | $150,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL SPECIAL VICTIMS INCORPORATED | $80,000 |
| BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT | $65,000 |
| FOWLER-OSULLIVAN FOUNDATION | $57,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF PIERCE COUNTY | $52,500 |
| RACHEL COVEY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $35,275 |
| OBRIEN SCHOOLS FOR THE MAASAI NFP | $14,550 |
| ZAWADIE SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Berger North Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING5× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +101%
- BCBountiful Children's Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +39%
- TRThe Rachel Covey Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +6%
- PPawsibilitiesone grant, 2020 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ruthless Kindness provides multiple programs to remove barriers to safety for the most at-risk animals and people. This includes free mobile veterinary care and animal supplies/support for victims of domestic violence and others in crisis,…
Purpose Built Families Foundation is a nationally-accredited 501c3 nonprofit that delivers compassionate, client-centered, trauma-informed care to address underlying causes of poverty, homelessness, addiction, and suicide.
To provide a safe, healthy, informed and supportive environment where all people can grow and thrive
Adoptive Families Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to the holistic support of families with adopted children who demonstrate emotional, behavioral, or psychological challenges whether immediately apparent or surfacing years…
Driven by our Christian faith, HopeCo provides quality holistic care that enables vulnerable children, their families, and communities in East Africa to flourish.
The organization works to protect and empower the world's young through championing education, developing enterprise, and ending exploitation.
The mission of Courthouse Dogs Foundation is to promote justice with compassion partnering with professionally trained facility dogs to provide support to everyone in the justice system. Most of these dogs are utilized to support children…
The Transatlantic Orthopedic Foundation participates with medical practitioners, businesses, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to provide humanitarian assistance for individuals addressing musculoskeletal conditions in…
The mission of the organization is to find rescue and transform the lives of orphaned and abandoned children victims of human trafficking and those who are at risk or are living in abject poverty through educational spiritual psychological…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marianne Frostig Ctr of Edu Therapy and the most unlike its peers is Sick Recovery for 638. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds OBRIEN SCHOOLS FOR THE MAASAI NFP ↗
- Who funds BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Bountiful Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOWLER-OSULLIVAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SICK RECOVERY FOR 638 ↗
- Who funds The Rachel Covey Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Pierce County ↗
- Who funds MARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pawsibilities ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 North 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.
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
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.