Missouri · Private foundation
Berges Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $101M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Berges Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 57 | $16M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $7.3M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $8.9M | 49% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $8.6M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $4.6M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $5.5M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $3.7M | 75% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $5,605,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc | $3,373,456 | 3 | 12% |
| St Louis Police Foundation | $2,962,500 | 7 | 14% |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $1,200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Urban Sprouts Child Development Center | $1,150,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis | $1,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Missouri Historical Society | $1,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Launchcode Foundation | $978,868 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Berges Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · The Bellwether Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis
How this is measured
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About Berges Family Foundation
- How much does Berges Family Foundation give?
- Berges Family Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $16,229,105 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Berges Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Health (15%), Education (12%).
- Who are Berges Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($5.6M), Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc ($3.4M), St Louis Police Foundation ($3.0M).
- Does Berges Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berges Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berges Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation.
- Where is Berges Family Foundation based?
- Berges Family Foundation is based in MO.
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