Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,400
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $47k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $416k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $345k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $93k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $797,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Val | $120,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $26,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $20,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley | $12,340 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd | $12,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Caring Partners Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $797,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Val | $120,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $34,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Allentown Art Museum | $26,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Lehigh Valley Inc | $20,600 | 5 | n/a |
| Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley | $12,340 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd | $12,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Innocence Project Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Caring Partners Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Baum School of Art | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation with peer funders
About Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation
- How much does Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation give?
- Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $21,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (67%), Education (16%), Religion (4%).
- Who are Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc ($798k), Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Val ($120k), Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc ($34k).
- Does Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust, Harry C Trexler Estate, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation based?
- Bernard & Audrey Berman Foundation is based in PA.
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