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Bergmark Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$172kArts & Culture$142kEducation$82kCrime & Legal$35kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$7kEnvironment$7kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$3,900
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
TWIN CITIES PBS$500
DOCTOR WITHOUT BORDERS$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIDMC DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $1k → 9%COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $5k → 14%NFG (NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP): $1k → 10%FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5k → 7%JHPIEGO: $10k → 19%LAKE MINNETONKA ASSOCIATION: $1k → 11%NFG (NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP): $1k → 10%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%JHPIEGO: $1k → 19%PIP JAZZ FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%ACLU (AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIO: $1k → 17%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%PIP JAZZ FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $44k → 14%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $26k → 14%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%MORTON CURE PARALYSIS FUND: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $24k → 14%TCS EDUCATION SYSTEM: $5k → 14%THE MORTON CURE PARALYSIS FOUNDATIO: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $24k → 14%UPTURNSHIPS: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $4k → 14%UPTURNSHIPS: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $4k → 14%THE MORTON CURE PARALYSIS FOUNDATIO: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $4k → 14%THE MORTON CURE PARALYSIS FOUNDATIO: $1k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $4k → 14%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $4k → 14%CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $35k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE: $6k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $5k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%MARY ELLEN STRONG FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%MACALESTER COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT: $3k → 14%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
OK
MS
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$416k · 18 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
27

Total granted

$416k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

61%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +5%
  • TE
    TCS Education System
    7× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +102%
  • MACALESTER COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $13k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +0%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
4
Minnesota Private College Fund

The minnesota private college fund serves the shared needs of its members by seeking philanthropic support from corporations, foundations, and others for the benefit of its member colleges and universities and the students they educate.

Education
5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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7
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
8
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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10
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
11
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $170,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $10,500 · Other+29 more: $46,670 · Other+29 moreMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $137,204 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN …+3 more: $2,590 · Arts & CultureTCS Education System: $50,000 · EducationTCS Education Syst…MACALESTER COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationMACALESTER COLLEGETHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $8,500 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOLTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…+3 more: $3,200 · EducationNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $35,000 · Crime & LegalBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,325 · HealthMorton Cure Paralysis Fund: $1,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 · Health+1 more: $106 · HealthLake Minnetonka Association: $1,800 · EnvironmentNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$227,920Arts & Culture$139,794Education$78,700Crime & Legal$35,000Health$3,931Environment$1,800Public Safety & Disaster$500

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 budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $137,204 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTCS Education System: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPTURNSHIPS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association: $1,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,240 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMorton Cure Paralysis Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE TREE APPLE CLASSIC FUND: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC FOR FOOD INC: $50 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.

  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds TCS Education System ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UPTURNSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
  • Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Morton Cure Paralysis Fund ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Bergmark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bergmark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Bergmark Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bergmark Foundation 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 50 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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