Illinois · Private foundation
Berlin Family Fund
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $137k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations Berlin Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $1.8M | 39% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $251k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $284k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $249k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,236,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New Trier Educational Foundation | $309,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Winnetka Parks Foundation | $222,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Winnetka Community House Inc | $135,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Endeavor Health | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Winnetka Congregational Church | $73,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Scenic Hudson Inc | $49,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Dudley Inc | $26,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Elpis Enterprises | $20,150 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Berlin Family Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Goosefoot Community Fund · John D and Alexandra Nichols Family Foundation · Frank Family Foundation · Charles H and Beverly E Shaw Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Winnetka Club · The Sharon L King Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Whidbey Community Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation
How this is measured
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About Berlin Family Fund
- How much does Berlin Family Fund give?
- Berlin Family Fund reported 15 grants totaling $1,246,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Berlin Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (33%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Berlin Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Trustees of Princeton University ($1.2M), New Trier Educational Foundation ($309k), Winnetka Parks Foundation ($222k).
- Does Berlin Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berlin Family Fund 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 Berlin Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kemper Educational and Charitable Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Goosefoot Community Fund.
- Where is Berlin Family Fund based?
- Berlin Family Fund is based in IL.
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