California · Private foundation
Berry Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Berry Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 23 | $157k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $143k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $138k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $121k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $103k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $116k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $123k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $116k | 6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Bridges | $96,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Francis Catholic Kitchen | $92,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County | $86,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $59,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $58,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Grey Bears | $58,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Roman Catholic Bishop of Fresno | $44,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Share Our Strength | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Samaritans Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Bridges | $96,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Francis Catholic Kitchen | $92,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County | $86,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $59,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $58,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Grey Bears | $58,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Roman Catholic Bishop of Fresno | $44,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Share Our Strength | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Samaritans Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Visalia Rescue Mission | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Operation Surf | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ibmglobal | $8,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Holy Cross School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Siena House Maternity Home of Santa Cruz County | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Abrahams Classical Christian Academy | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Francis High School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Genesis House Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berry Family 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: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Berry Family Foundation
- How much does Berry Family Foundation give?
- Berry Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $157,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Berry Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Human Services (25%), Education (24%).
- Who are Berry Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Bridges ($96k), St Francis Catholic Kitchen ($92k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Cruz County ($86k).
- Does Berry Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berry Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berry Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Monterey Peninsula Foundation.
- Where is Berry Family Foundation based?
- Berry Family Foundation is based in CA.
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