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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$490kHuman Services$225kFood & Nutrition$205kHealth$192kEmployment$150kCrime & Legal$100kHousing & Shelter$100kReligion$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LANGLEY SCHOOL$70,000
INOVA HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS$25,000
ROSE RUN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$25,000
OFFENDER AID AND RESTORATIONS OF ARLINGTON COUNTY INC$20,000
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$20,000
ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC$20,000
CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS$20,000
ARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGE$20,000
MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS$15,000
BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE$15,000
DC ARTS & HUMANITIES EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $10k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN INC: $20k → 10%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK: $5k → 14%ARLINGTON THRIVE INC: $15k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
OH
PA
CT
UT
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
25

Total granted

$1.1M
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+35%

Still filing today

89%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • AF
    Arlington Food Assistance Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +19%
  • CF
    CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +51%
  • TL
    THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +52%
  • PH
    PULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • NI
    NATIONAL INTERVENER & ADVOCATES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
3
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
4
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
7
Dc Bilingual Public Charter School

The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.

Education
8
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
9
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
10
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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11
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
12
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Doorways for Women and Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louies Huwe. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySenior Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Ymca Youth DevelopmentEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr15%47%35–55yr15%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr15%47%35–55yr15%15%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,432

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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arlington Neighborhood Village — $70,000 · OtherArlington Neighborhood VillageARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $55,000 · OtherARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INCTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCDOORWAYS — $45,000 · OtherDOORWAYSDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $40,000 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INCPULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATES — $40,000 · OtherPULMONARY HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATESST MATTHEW'S HOUSE — $30,000 · OtherROSE RUN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherD C ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC — $25,000 · OtherBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE — $25,000 · OtherSERVE YOUR CITY — $30,000 · Other+15 more — $194,000 · Other+15 morePITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $160,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOO…CLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDS — $110,000 · EducationCLOTHESLINE FOR ARLINGTON KIDSTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PE…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationArlington Food Assistance Center — $140,000 · Food & NutritionArlington Food Assis…COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH — $90,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PI…School Nutrition Association of Massachusetts Inc — $25,000 · Food & NutritionSchool Nutrition Ass…MARTHA'S TABLE INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S TABLE INCBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY I…FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $30,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC — $20,000 · HealthLOUIES HUWE — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $2,055 · HealthPathForward Inc — $60,000 · Community ImprovementOffender Aid & Restoration Arlington Co OAR Arlington Alexandria Falls Church — $50,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH HAVEN INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesARLINGTON THRIVE — $15,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$624,000Education$467,000Food & Nutrition$295,000Health$87,055Community Improvement$60,000Crime & Legal$50,000Human Services$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetArlington Neighborhood Village — $70,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Collier County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI-WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Lodgings Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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
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.

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.

Arlington Community F…Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Community Foundat…Washington Forrest Fo…John Edward Fowler Me…Dominion Energy Chari…Act for AlexandriaPhilip L Graham Fund …The Geary-OHara Famil…
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

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 Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ymca of Collier County — 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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