How much does Berra Family Charitable Foundation give?

Berra Family Charitable Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $308,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Berra Family Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Health (17%).

Who are Berra Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Louis University High School ($365k), National Museum of Transportation ($268k), Veterans Community Project ($246k).

Does Berra Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Berra Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Berra Family Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company, St Louis Community Foundation.

Where is Berra Family Charitable Foundation based?

Berra Family Charitable Foundation is based in MO.

Berra Family Charitable Foundation

Berra Family Charitable Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Berra Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$308k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$785kHousing & Shelter$434kHealth$401kArts & Culture$278kYouth Development$174kPublic Benefit$80kAnimals$74kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $53k
$10k–50k11 grants · $196k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$89k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation	$60,000
Veterans Community Project	$40,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope	$25,000
Loyola Academy	$25,000
Queen of Peace Center	$15,500
St Patrick Center	$15,000
Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital	$15,000
St Joseph's Academy	$15,000
St Louis University High School	$15,000
Our Lady of the Pillar	$10,000
The Backstoppers	$10,000
Humane Society of MO	$10,000
Lift for Life Gym	$7,500
National Museum of Transportation	$7,400
North Side Community School	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 28 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+5%

Still filing today

75%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION
4× · 2022–2025 · $268k · revenue +32%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
5× · 2021–2025 · $246k · revenue +106%
SL
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
6× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +100%

Funded once

WO
WINGS OF HOPE
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -21%
GS
GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
TM
THE MISSION CONTINUES
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -72%

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.

04Its field

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.

Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services

Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy

Jewish Family Services of St Louis

Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…

Human Services

Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement

St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City Iowa

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.

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Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education

Lutheran Senior Services

Older adults living life to the fullest.

Human Services

St Louis Crisis Nursery

Provide temporary care and shelter to children confronted with various life crises and to offer emergency support and community referrals to family members.

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Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services

St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/37

Grantees still filing

28/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,364,170Health$377,500Public Benefit$323,599Education$241,500Animals$68,000Youth Development$25,609International$16,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO38.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Berges Family Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berra Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berra Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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