· Private foundation
Berman Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CASA OF THE CHEAHA REGION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| WEST END COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| THE YMCA OF CALHOUN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PROMISE 686 | $10,000 |
| THE WELLHOUSE | $8,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER | $8,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S MEDICAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| ALL SAINTS INTERFAITH CENTER OF CON | $7,000 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF ANNISTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 5% of Berman Charitable 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. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- PIPromise686 Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +190%
- ASANNISTON SOUP BOWL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +36%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY FOUND OF BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2018 · $64k
- CCCLEBURNE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CCCALHOUN COUNTY TECH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
To provide a refuge for unwanted and/or abandoned dogs and cats, provide pet adoption, pet trainng, neutering and medical treatment, and rehabilitation, with no euthanization unless in the case of incurable illness.
Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Service to low income and homeless
Shelter abused, abandoned, neglected, injured & homeless animals
To serve the homeless and the impoverished population with nourishing meals, warm showers, and a compassionate environment.
Caasnm is a 60 year-old new mexico statewide health and social services not for profit with a mission of uplifting low-income families by connecting communities, encouraging family wellness, empowering families, and bridging resources.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Ministries Inc of Calhoun County and the most unlike its peers is Communities of Transformation. 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.
21 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. 21 of the 76 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 Promise686 Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNISTON SOUP BOWL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CALHOUN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HUB WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · United Way of East Central Alabama Inc · Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Berman Charitable 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.
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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