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Berry Charitable Foundation (F/K/A the Paiko Foundation) at a glance

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Berry Charitable Foundation (F/K/A the Paiko Foundation)

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$14MReligion$2.8MRecreation & Sports$2.1MEducation$1.7MPhilanthropy$500kHealth$300kYouth Development$20kEnvironment$4k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
  • $250k+8 grants · $4.7M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$1,300,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,000,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$750,000
Individual grant recipient$516,285
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$350,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$304,225
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$275,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS$125,000
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$20,000
THE FUND FOR SAINT ANN SCHOOL$20,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1.0M → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $200k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $709k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $20k → 9%NC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $30k → 12%BRAVO COLORADO AT VAIL-BEAVER CREEK: $800k → 7%THE JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $150k → 19%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1.0M → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY: $150k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $304k → 11%NC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $25k → 12%BRAVO COLORADO AT VAIL-BEAVER CREEK: $675k → 7%THE JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $150k → 19%YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $50k → 17%THE FUND FOR SAINT ANN SCHOOL: $20k → 10%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $297k → 11%NC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $14k → 12%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $26k → 17%FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $265k → 11%THE MET LINCOLN CENTER: $2.5M → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $1.5M → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $1.3M → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $1.0M → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $750k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $750k → 17%NYC BALLET: $600k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $550k → 17%NYC BALLET: $516k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $350k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $350k → 17%NY PHILHARMONIC: $320k → 17%NYC BALLET: $300k → 17%NY PHILHARMONIC: $270k → 17%NY PHILHARMONIC: $270k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $250k → 17%NY PHILHARMONIC: $250k → 17%NYC BALLET: $170k → 17%NYC BALLET: $150k → 17%NYC BALLET: $150k → 17%NY PHILHARMONIC: $100k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $775k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $760k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $750k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $275k → 17%CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $275k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 12 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$19M
$2.5M

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +167%
  • BC
    BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +32%
  • YC
    YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MET LINCOLN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2.5M
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $6,800,000 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERACENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2,835,000 · OtherCENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE MET LINCOLN CENTER: $2,450,000 · OtherTHE MET LINCOLN CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $1,886,285 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $1,584,804 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $1,210,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+5 more: $889,220 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,086,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PA…BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1,475,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $149,500 · Arts & CultureYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $4,000 · Environment
Other$17,655,309Recreation & Sports$2,086,000Arts & Culture$1,624,500Philanthropy$150,000Youth Development$20,000Environment$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,086,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL: $1,475,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC: $149,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
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 CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVO COLORADO AT BEAVER CREEK-VAIL INC DBA BRAVO VAIL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Berry Charitable Foundation (F/K/A the Paiko Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berry Charitable Foundation (F/K/A the Paiko Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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