· Private foundation
Berman Family Foundation
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOULDER ZEN CENTER INC | $1,200 |
| SHANTI CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $460 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 69% of all-years giving ($480k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
Mfi was established to promote the expansion of maharishi vedic science.
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
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.
The mission of innerscience research fund is to fund research on the biological and physiological effects of meditation on the human body, empowering individuals to heal and thrive.
This corporation is a religious corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. it is organized under the nonprofit religious corporation law exclusively for religious purposes. the specific purpose of this corporation…
Buddhist Meditation and Study
Yogananda Seva, Inc. (Yogananda Seva) is a San Diego County-based nonprofit, formed in 2019. Yogananda Sevas mission is to engage and motivate the vast pool of Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS)…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 44 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 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 Dharma Sangha Boulder Inc DBA Boulder Zen Center Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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: David L Lieb Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Berman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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