· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $18,000 |
| CASA OF THE CHEAHA REGION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| THE YMCA OF CALHOUN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WEST END COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PROMISE 686 | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENABLER DEVELOPER | $8,000 |
| THE WELLHOUSE | $8,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S MEDICAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| ALL SAINTS INTERFAITH CENTER OF CON | $7,000 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF ANNISTON | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Berman Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 76 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Berman Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berman Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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