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Bergstrom 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $137k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHSHORE HOSPITALS FOUNDATION | $2,000,557 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $136,665 |
| CENTENNIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $27,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| WOMEN'S DEBATE INSTITUTE | $10,500 |
| DC KINCARE ALLIANCE | $10,363 |
| NORTHWESTERN SETTLEMENT | $5,182 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHN G SHEDD AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| KIRK OF THE KEYS | $5,000 |
| CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER | $2,000 |
| KENILWORTH UNION CHURCH | $1,000 |
| GRACE NETWORK | $1,000 |
| ERIE CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EHEndeavor Health Clinical Operations3× · 2021–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +306%
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +62%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $352k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- BHBaptist Health Foundationone grant, 2019 · $20k
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +352%
- DADOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +69%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
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At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
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UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
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.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monroe County Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DC KINCARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN S DEBATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds PI KAPPA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENILWORTH COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Blue Skies Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN ACCOUNTING ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds CYSTINOSIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Marathon Garden Club Inc ↗
- Who funds OVER THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Sexton Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bergstrom Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Domestic Abuse Shelter Inc — 23% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Bergstrom Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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