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BERGREEN FOUNDATION formerly known as THE BERNARD BERGREEN FOUNDATION at a glance

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BERGREEN FOUNDATION formerly known as THE BERNARD BERGREEN 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.

$82k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$277kEducation$161kArts & Culture$73kHousing & Shelter$50kInternational$39kPublic Benefit$23kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ROHI$12,000
ARTS MANDALAY FOUNDATION$10,000
ROBERT PACKARD CENTER FOR ALS$5,000
NEO PHILANTROPHY INC NYC$5,000
PHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION$5,000
STAND UP GIRLS INC$4,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
ONE FAMILY FUND$4,000
SPARK YOUTH NYC$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGENDAVID ADOM$2,500
FRACTURED ATLAS$2,500
HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA$2,500
CAMP TIMANOUS$2,500
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE$2,500
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$2,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ARTS MANDALAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $3k → 14%STAND UP GIRLS INC: $4k → 14%SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%CETANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 5%ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $8k → 11%ROBERT PACKARD CENTER FOR ALS: $5k → 19%CAMP TIMANOUS: $3k → 7%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNITED STATES: $3k → 14%STAND UP GIRLS INC: $3k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%ROBERT PACKARD CENTER FOR ALS: $4k → 19%NEO PHILANTROPHY INC NYC: $5k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGENDAVID ADOM: $3k → 17%PITZER COLLEGE: $3k → 14%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8k → 17%SPARK YOUTH NYC: $3k → 17%THE PERFORMANCE ZONE: $3k → 17%SPS ANNUAL FUND: $5k → 17%FRACTURED ATLAS: $3k → 17%weil cornell medical college: $25k → 17%weil cornell medical college: $25k → 17%JAMES BUCHANAN BRADY FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JAMES BUCHANAN BRADY FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JAMES BUCHANAN BRADY FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $3k → 17%CONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $2k → 17%THE TRANSPLANT LIVING CENTER: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $28k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $3k → 17%MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $28k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $24k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $24k → 17%SEEDS OF PEACE: $5k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $24k → 17%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $4k → 17%AMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FO: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FO: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FO: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FO: $25k → 17%THE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS: $3k → 17%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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
NC
DC
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$522k · 25 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$522k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $102k · revenue +21%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +58%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TRANSPLANT LIVING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CE
    CETANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue -39%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
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
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
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
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
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
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

39 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. 39 of the 66 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FO: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOweil cornell medical college: $50,000 · Otherweil cornell medical collegeJAMES BUCHANAN BRADY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherJAMES BUCHANAN BRADY FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ROHI: $16,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ROHIYALE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherCETANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · Other+30 more: $79,150 · Other+30 moreTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $102,500 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL C…THE TRANSPLANT LIVING CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE TRANSPLANT LIVING CEN…+1 more: $3,000 · HealthCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $101,500 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCARTS MANDALAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationARTS MANDALAY FOUNDATI…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $12,400 · Education+6 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50,106 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureONE FAMILY FUND: $5,500 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $5,000 · InternationalPHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $1,900 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $1,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $2,500 · Crime & LegalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$293,150Health$155,500Education$137,400Arts & Culture$58,606International$22,900Crime & Legal$10,500Civil Rights$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $102,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $101,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50,106 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCETANA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetARTS MANDALAY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHANDEEYAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL: $4,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTimanous Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR MODERN COURTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DISABLED VETERANS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $250 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 BERGREEN FOUNDATION formerly known as THE BERNARD BERGREEN FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BERGREEN FOUNDATION formerly known as THE BERNARD BERGREEN FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Phandeeyar Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 66 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home