How much does Bergerson Family Foundation give?

Bergerson Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $200,010 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Bergerson Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Health (14%).

Who are Bergerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Family Partnership ($375k), Project for Pride in Living Inc ($375k), Twin Cities Rise ($305k).

Does Bergerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bergerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bergerson Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.

Where is Bergerson Family Foundation based?

Bergerson Family Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Bergerson Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 20
Grants FY2024: 19
Organizations funded FY2023: 5%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 25; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $78k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Bergerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	20	$200k	10%
FY2023	19	$227k	5%
FY2022	20	$246k	5%
FY2021	24	$674k	21%
FY2020	25	$811k	20%
FY2019	25	$920k	n/a

86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$955kHousing & Shelter$495kHealth$445kEmployment$305kFood & Nutrition$155kInternational$125kPhilanthropy$113kEducation$104kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Family Partnership	$375,000	6	1%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$375,000	6	0%
Twin Cities Rise	$305,000	6	2%
East Side Neighborhood Services Inc	$270,000	6	1%
International Institute of Minnesota	$165,000	6	1%
Appetite for Change Inc	$155,000	4	2%
One Acre Fund	$125,000	2	0%
Breck School	$97,500	6	0%
People Serving People Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Gates Foundation	$80,622	1	0%

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All grantees of Bergerson Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Family Partnership	$375,000	6	1%
Project for Pride in Living Inc	$375,000	6	0%
Twin Cities Rise	$305,000	6	2%
East Side Neighborhood Services Inc	$270,000	6	1%
International Institute of Minnesota	$165,000	6	1%
Appetite for Change Inc	$155,000	4	2%
One Acre Fund	$125,000	2	0%
Breck School	$97,500	6	0%
People Serving People Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Gates Foundation	$80,622	1	0%
Walk-In Counseling Center Inc	$60,000	6	2%
The Bridge for Youth	$30,000	6	0%
Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc	$30,000	6	0%
Gates Philanthropy Partners	$28,014	1	0%
Native American Community Development Institute	$20,000	4	0%
St Paul Youth Services	$20,000	4	1%
Washburn Center for Children	$10,000	1	0%
The Cookie Cart	$10,000	2	0%
Friends & Co	$10,000	1	1%
Onegoal	$5,000	1	0%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$3,000	3	0%
Fred Wells Tennis and Education Center Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Minnesota Youth Symphonies	$1,000	1	0%
Folds of Honor Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc	$200	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($810k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bergerson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN31.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Target Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Youthprise · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family 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.

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About Bergerson Family Foundation

How much does Bergerson Family Foundation give?: Bergerson Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $200,010 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Bergerson Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Health (14%).
Who are Bergerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Family Partnership ($375k), Project for Pride in Living Inc ($375k), Twin Cities Rise ($305k).
Does Bergerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bergerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bergerson Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is Bergerson Family Foundation based?: Bergerson Family Foundation is based in MN.