· Private foundation
Berns Team Blessings Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION SATURATION | $43,300 |
| KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE | $41,100 |
| LCFEF | $20,000 |
| MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES | $19,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS | $15,250 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $14,450 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| DOOR OF HOPE | $9,000 |
| TEAM SMILE | $4,000 |
| THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| ONCE UPON A ROOM | $4,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $4,000 |
| RIDE ON | $4,000 |
| CORE CONNECTIONS & OPERATIONS (PASADENA WATER POLO) | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS5× · 2020–2024 · $109k · revenue +189%
- KCKERSHAW'S CHALLENGE4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +37%
- DODOOR OF HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- KCKERSHAW'S CHALLENGEone grant, 2022 · $45k
- FOFRIENDS OF INDIA XIAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $32k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
This year, all for kids provided 70,000 at-risk children and parents living in los angeles and orange counties with services that include school readiness, parenting classes, family resource centers, support groups, mental health…
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
To provide holistic, christ-centered care for orphaned and destitute children, enabling them to create positive and lasting change in their nations.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
Children's hope is a source of love and light, empowering individuals to create a life filled with purpose, hope and joy.
Cca is committed to preparing young children to be global citizens who are developmentally well-rounded, emotionally literate, and environmentally conscious.
The mission of los angeles christian health centers is to follow christ by loving and serving our neighbors through the provision of comprehensive quality healthcare. our vision is the healing and restoration of homeless and underserved…
Chariots for hope shares the hope of christ by loving kenyan children through christian discipleship and long-term physical, emotional, and educational care and provision. the vision of chariots for hope is to create a transformed future…
The make-a-wish foundation of greater los angeles creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To deliver oral health education and comprehensive treatment for economically disadvantaged children, including those with complex medical considerations, while also providing premier training in pediatric and multi-specialty dentistry.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Hope International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 64 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 OPERATION SATURATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds KERSHAW'S CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MONTE VISTA GROVE HOMES ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MERCYWORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE ON LA RIDE ON THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTERALL ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY CARES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WALK OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BALL GIRL BASEBALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATCH INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMSMILE 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: California Community Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Crawford Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Sempra Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Berns Team Blessings 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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