· Private foundation
Berman Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kol Hai Loves You | $1,800 |
| Brahmanada Saraswati Trust | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 31% of grant dollars ($216k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 69% that went abroad ($480k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 69% of all-years giving ($480k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BSBrahmanada Saraswati Trust7× · 2017–2024 · $480k
- MPMaharishi Purusha Program4× · 2017–2021 · $48k
- BSBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +953%
Funded once
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -100%- UCUI Center for Advancementone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TLThe Libby Fundone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The purpose and activities of dana-farber, inc. are to promote and support the exempt missions of dana-farber cancer institute and to provide investment management services.
Mfi was established to promote the expansion of maharishi vedic science.
Maharishi vedic science and technology foundation (mvstf) is organized to provide programs that promote individual and societal peace, happiness, prosperity, and perfect health, by engaging in activities that increase and promote the…
Dianovas mission is to enable individuals to build and maintain spiritually-grounded, loving, nurturing and healthy loving and intimate relationships, particularly for persons who are impeded by high anxiety, trauma and related causes. at…
The goal of the foundation is to holistically provide for the well being of women, their children, and orphaned/abandoned children around the world.
The fund's mission is to help create, support, and promote thought-provoking and aesthetically superior media projects that inspire positive action and change by presenting real-world solutions to complex issues and ideas.
To study and practice the teachings of the "practicing lineage". to transmit to others the view and the step by step path to realization of the practicing lineage. to make whatever adjustments and adaptions, such as a greater emphasis on…
As a supporting organization to support, benefit and carry out the purposes of publicaly supported organizations that are engaged in promoting the Transcendental Meditation program or other aspects of Maharishi Integrated Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brahmananda Saraswati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 42 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 BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHANTI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds TURKS AND CAICOS REEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Jefferson County Farmers and Neighbors ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRAMA CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Sacred Sun Ministries ↗
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: David L Lieb Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Berman Family Foundation 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.