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Bergstrom Foundation Inc

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.

$290k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 19
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$6.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Bergstrom Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$285k33%
FY20249$231k33%
FY202319$312k79%
FY202210$245k80%
FY20218$245k25%
FY202015$290kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$490kHuman Services$225kFood & Nutrition$205kHealth$192kEmployment$150kCrime & Legal$100kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$55kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
OH
PA
CT
UT
VA
MD
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($228k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bergstrom Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPittsburgh Urban Christian School: $160,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetArlington Food Assistance Center: $140,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetClothesline for Arlington Kids: $110,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetThe Langley School Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Kitchen Pittsburgh: $90,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Neighborhood Village: $70,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPathForward Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetArlington Free Clinic Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOffender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe DC Central Kitchen Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDoorways for Women and Families Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetServe Your City: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFriends of the Guest House Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSchool Nutrition Association of Massachusetts Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetD C Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBridges to Independence: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBread for the City Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Haven Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNami-Wood River Valley Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYMCA of Collier County: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Table Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Thrive: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJubilee Jobs Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Lodgings Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMcLean Project for the Arts: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrace Place for Children and Families Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Outdoor Education Association Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $2,055 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiski School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 32.

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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.

Arlington Community FoundationVA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arlington Community Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Washington Forrest Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Act for Alexandria · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Geary-OHara 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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How do I get to Bergstrom Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bergstrom Foundation Inc 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.

About Bergstrom Foundation Inc

How much does Bergstrom Foundation Inc give?
Bergstrom Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bergstrom Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Human Services (14%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Bergstrom Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Urban Christian School ($160k), Arlington Food Assistance Center ($140k), Clothesline for Arlington Kids ($110k).
Does Bergstrom Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bergstrom Foundation Inc 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 Bergstrom Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arlington Community Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area.
Where is Bergstrom Foundation Inc based?
Bergstrom Foundation Inc is based in VA.

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 48 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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