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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.

$848k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MHealth$505kReligion$500kCrime & Legal$393kHuman Services$356kFood & Nutrition$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$169kYouth Development$155kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $745k
$57,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $120k → 10%FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY: $60k → 8%BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $71k → 10%BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $65k → 10%BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $50k → 10%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

WA
ID
IL
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Berger North Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Berger North Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 12 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$3.8M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+6%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TA
    TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING
    5× · 2020–2024 · $950k · revenue +101%
  • BC
    Bountiful Children's Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • TR
    The Rachel Covey Foundation
    4× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • FS
    FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • P
    Pawsibilities
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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
Ruthless Kindness

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,…

Crime & Legal
2
Purpose Built Families Foundation Inc

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.

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3
Fostering Futures

To provide a safe, healthy, informed and supportive environment where all people can grow and thrive

Human Services
4
Adoptive Families Coalition

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…

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5
HopeCo

Driven by our Christian faith, HopeCo provides quality holistic care that enables vulnerable children, their families, and communities in East Africa to flourish.

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6
Clif Family Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Young Living Foundation

The organization works to protect and empower the world's young through championing education, developing enterprise, and ending exploitation.

Health
8
Courthouse Dogs Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
9
The Health Navigator Foundation co Tamarack Ventures Llc
Health
10
Transatlantic Orthopedic Foundation Corporation

The Transatlantic Orthopedic Foundation participates with medical practitioners, businesses, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to provide humanitarian assistance for individuals addressing musculoskeletal conditions in…

Health
11
Bless an Orphan

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…

Human Services
12
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marianne Frostig Ctr of Edu Therapy; 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.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $500,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY S…NATIONAL SPECIAL VICTIMS INCORPORATED: $393,000 · OtherNATIONAL SPECIAL VICTIMS INCORPORATEDFRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING-EMERGENCY REFERRAL SERV: $386,000 · OtherFRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING-EMERGENCY REFER…Bountiful Children's Foundation: $200,000 · OtherBountiful Children's Foundation+1 more: $10,000 · OtherTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $950,000 · EducationTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKINGMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $45,000 · EducationOBRIEN SCHOOLS FOR THE MAASAI NFP: $439,550 · InternationalOBRIEN SCHOO…BOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $306,000 · Human ServicesBOUNDLESS …FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUP…SICK RECOVERY FOR 638: $160,000 · HealthSICK RECOV…The Rachel Covey Foundation: $155,000 · HealthThe Rachel…BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $39,275 · HealthBENEVOLENT…FOWLER-OSULLIVAN FOUNDATION: $169,343 · Public Safety & DisasterFamily Promise of Pierce County: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterPawsibilities: $35,000 · Animals
Other$1,489,000Education$1,045,000International$439,550Human Services$366,000Health$354,275Public Safety & Disaster$169,343Housing & Shelter$52,500Animals$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $950,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetOBRIEN SCHOOLS FOR THE MAASAI NFP: $439,550 over 3y, 67% of budgetBOUNDLESS EMPOWERMENT: $306,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetBountiful Children's Foundation: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFOWLER-OSULLIVAN FOUNDATION: $169,343 over 3y, 70% of budgetSICK RECOVERY FOR 638: $160,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $155,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetFamily Promise of Pierce County: $52,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetMARIANNE FROSTIG CTR OF EDU THERAPY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $39,275 over 1y, 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.

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.

Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC6.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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