Kansas · Private foundation
Berry Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 116
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Berry Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $619k 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 | 71 | $1.8M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 97 | $729k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $367k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 99 | $639k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 101 | $583k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $407k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 116 | $661k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastminster Presbyterian Church | $480,000 | 6 | n/a |
| United Way of the Plains Inc | $403,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Friends University | $289,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The AED Foundation Inc | $274,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Soce Neighborhood Action Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County | $250,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $240,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Doc's Friends Inc | $215,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Heartspring Inc | $188,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Hunter Health Clinic | $175,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 181 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 144 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Berry Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 153 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Wichita Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · United Way of the Plains Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Kansas Health Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Ima Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Belin Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Berry Foundation Inc
- How much does Berry Foundation Inc give?
- Berry Foundation Inc reported 74 grants totaling $1,794,055 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 116 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Berry Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (13%), Education (12%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Berry Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastminster Presbyterian Church ($480k), United Way of the Plains Inc ($404k), Friends University ($289k).
- Does Berry Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berry Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berry Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Foundation, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
- Where is Berry Foundation Inc based?
- Berry Foundation Inc is based in KS.
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