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Berry Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAII CATHOLIC FOUNDATION SACRED HEART RELIEF HEART | $10,000 |
| JACOB'S HEART | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY BRIDGES | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GREY BEARS | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| BETHLEHEM CENTER | $6,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| VISALIA RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE CROSS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS | $5,000 |
| HOLY CROSS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- CBCommunity Bridges9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +64%
- SFST FRANCIS CATHOLIC KITCHEN9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +6%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SSST STANISLAUS CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $18k
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus Countygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +132%
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +164%
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.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
Provide emergency free food to the needy, sick, and homeless people in Sacramento County.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
To alleviate hunger and homelessness in south santa clara county by providing food, housing and employment related services, and advocating for system changes to improve the quality of life for the most vulnerable people in the communities…
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
For the performance of charitable acts and service to the less fortunate.
Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.
FISH of South Valley San Jose provides emergency food assistance to those who are in need. Our dedicated team of volunteers serve our clients with dignity and respect as we help to combat food insecurity in our community.
No senior should go hungry. nutritious meals, which are delivered by caring volunteers, improve the health and well-being of people who are homebound, elderly, or disabled and help them remain in their homes and maintain their independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Bridges and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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 Community Bridges ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GREY BEARS ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds VISALIA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds ST ABRAHAMS CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SIENA HOUSE MATERNITY HOME OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTERS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HOUSE 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: 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
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 Berry Family Foundation 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.