· Private foundation
Berlin Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $357k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $889k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $166,000 |
| FAMILYAID | $137,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $130,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON | $125,000 |
| JF & CS | $120,000 |
| WELCOME HOME | $60,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW | $51,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES | $42,000 |
| NEWTON FOOD PANTRY | $40,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $40,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $32,000 |
| TEMPLE ISREAL | $30,650 |
| THE WELL CDC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Berlin Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $268k 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
- TGTHE GATHERING PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +2%
- ECELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $473k · revenue +145%
- FOFriends of Cancer Research6× · 2019–2024 · $450k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- RMRAHAB MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $60k
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -12%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eliot Community Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Live Like Ally Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 151 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY BOARD OF AKRON ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER ISLAND PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDISHARE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VISION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Gar Foundation · Sisler McFawn Foundation Pfdn · The Welty Family Foundation · Lehner Family Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Samuel Reese Willis Foundation Inc · The Huntington-Akron Foundation · Kenneth L Calhoun Char Tr · Fw Albrecht Family Foundation · Mary S & David C Corbin Foundation · Lloyd L & Louise K Smith 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 Berlin Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Medishare for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 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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