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Berlin Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
54%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 41
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$323k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Berlin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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 arriving2$20k0%
FY202428$3k54%
FY20231$22k100%
FY202225$5k68%
FY202041$39kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$49kFood & Nutrition$12kInternational$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHuman Services$4kAnimals$2kEnvironment$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC

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 51 grantees
All grantees of Berlin Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blood Cancer United Inc$42,00020%
Feeding America$4,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$3,50010%
Community Food Share Inc$3,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$3,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$2,50010%
Direct Relief$2,50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$2,00010%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$2,00010%
Weld Food Bank$1,50010%
Mile High United Way Inc$1,50010%
Wedontwaste Inc$1,50010%
Sister Carmen Community Center Inc$1,50010%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$1,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$1,00010%
Denver Rescue Mission$70020%
City Harvest Inc$70020%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$60020%
Longmont Meals on Wheels Inc$55020%
AARP Foundation$52510%
Mother House Dba Haven Ridge$50010%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$45020%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$40020%
The Seeing Eye Inc$40030%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$36010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$35010%
Birds of Prey Foundation$32030%
American Heart Association Inc$30010%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc$30020%
Emergency Family Assistance Association$30010%
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center$25010%
The Raptor Trust$25030%
The Inn Between of Longmont Inc$20010%
March of Dimes Inc$20020%
Oxfam-America Inc$18020%
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc$15020%
Charity Navigator$15020%
Colorado Humanities$10020%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$10010%
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc$10010%
Compassion & Choices$10010%
National Parks Conservation Association$10010%
Als United Greater New York Inc$10010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10010%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$10010%
Milwaukee B'Nai B'Rith Non-Profit Housing Corporation-Covenant House$10020%
Colorado Bear Coalition$1001n/a
United States Association for UNHCR$10010%
The Center for People With Disabilities$5010%
Longmont Humane Society Inc$5010%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berlin Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Share Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeld Food Bank: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMile High United Way Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWedontwaste Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSister Carmen Community Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLongmont Meals on Wheels Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAARP Foundation: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMother House Dba Haven Ridge: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirds of Prey Foundation: $320 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Raptor Trust: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Inn Between of Longmont Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdirondack Mountain Club Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Humanities: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society of Boulder Valley Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAls United Greater New York Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee B'Nai B'Rith Non-Profit Housing Corporation-Covenant House: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for People With Disabilities: $50 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 50.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Xcel Energy Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Collins Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Berlin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berlin Family Foundation 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 Berlin Family Foundation

How much does Berlin Family Foundation give?
Berlin Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $20,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 41 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Berlin Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Food & Nutrition (14%), International (10%).
Who are Berlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Blood Cancer United Inc ($42k), Feeding America ($4k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($4k).
Does Berlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Berlin Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Berlin Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County.
Where is Berlin Family Foundation based?
Berlin Family Foundation is based in CO.

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 76 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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