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Berko Family 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.

$297k
Granted FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it funds
0166% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.1MHuman Services$60kArts & Culture$34kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k75 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
$860
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YESODEI HADAS$97,568
MONMOUTH TORAH LINKS$34,828
EZRAS NASHIM$24,996
THE CORNER MINYAN (CLUB TCM)$24,000
Individual grant recipient$12,750
SHALOM HERITAGE CENTER$10,500
CHAI LIFELINE$7,500
KOLLEL HORAAH OF AMERICAS$7,000
PARTNERS IN TORAH$5,000
BATYA GIRLS$3,900
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF WESTERN MONMOUTH COUNTY$2,970
RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$2,830
J-BEATZ$2,750
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $975 → 14%A TIME: $1k → 20%MISASKIM CORP: $540 → 20%BATYA GIRLS: $4k → 11%RENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $360 → 20%KFAR YELADIM DAVID: $500 → 20%KEREN HATZEDAKA: $2k → 11%THE SPECIAL CHILDREENS CENTER: $501 → 11%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$95k

Still filing today

31%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
Human ServicesReligionHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YH
    YESODEI HADAS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $485k · revenue -32% · 44% of their budget
  • MT
    MONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue -2%
  • CU
    CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 5000
    8× · 2017–2024 · $271k

Funded once

  • TD
    TACHBULOS-STRATEGIES DBA PROJECT INNOCENT HEART
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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2
Congregation Veharev

To provide religious mentoring and spiritual counseling to orthodox teenage students

Religion
3
Hashevaynu Inc

The furthurance of jewish concepts and religious beliefs.

Education
4
Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc

Providing jewish and secular education for elementary school aged children.

Education
5
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
6
Shaarei Halacha Inc
Philanthropy
7
Hitmasrut Inc

Jewish educational programs

Religion
8
Torah Ore Seminary

To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.

Education
9
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
10
Rashbi Tehillim Incorporated
Religion
11
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
12
Partners in Torah Inc

To provide support to yeshivath beth yehudah's adult education program

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Daughters of Israel Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wounded Warrior Project 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

20 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. 20 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
8/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESODEI HADAS INC: $484,567 · ReligionYESODEI HADAS INCMONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC: $374,047 · ReligionMONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INCPARTNERS IN TORAH: $118,600 · ReligionPARTNERS IN TORAHYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $71,590 · ReligionYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI+1 more: $515 · ReligionCONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 5000: $270,975 · OtherCONTRIBUTIONS UNDER 5000Individual grant recipient: $91,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $90,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEZRAS NASHIM: $89,162 · OtherEZRAS NASHIMBAIS YAAKOV: $69,000 · OtherBAIS YAAKOVJEWISH LEARNING CENTER: $65,162 · OtherJEWISH LEARNING CENTERTACHBULOS-STRATEGIES DBA PROJECT INNOCENT HEART: $60,000 · OtherTACHBULOS-STRATEGIES DBA PROJECT INNOCENT HEARTCLUB TCM: $34,000 · Other+67 more: $221,956 · Other+67 moreCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,180 · Health+1 more: $180 · HealthBATYA GIRLS INC: $3,900 · Human ServicesKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $975 · Human ServicesMISASKIM CORP: $540 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $501 · Human ServicesKFAR YELADIM DAVID INC: $500 · Human ServicesRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $360 · Human ServicesHelp Our Friends Inc: $1,500 · Community ImprovementSHALVA HIGH SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationDAILY GIVING INC: $384 · Philanthropy
Religion$1,049,319Other$991,915Health$15,360Human Services$9,276Community Improvement$1,500Education$500Philanthropy$384

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 budgetYESODEI HADAS INC: $484,567 over 8y, 44% of budgetMONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC: $374,047 over 9y, 11% of budgetPARTNERS IN TORAH: $118,600 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetYESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI: $71,590 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Our Friends Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA Torah Infertilty Medium Exchange: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL OF LIFE INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $100 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 YESODEI HADAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH TORAH LINKS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN TORAH ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TIFERES NAFTOLI ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds BATYA GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA INC ↗
  • Who funds Help Our Friends Inc ↗

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.

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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 Berko Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berko Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

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    How do I get to Berko Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Berko Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 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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