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Berry Foundation Inc at a glance

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Berry Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$972kEducation$876kReligion$862kHealth$652kPhilanthropy$636kHuman Services$550kYouth Development$411kAnimals$352kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sedgwick County Zoo$250,000
Music Theatre Wichita$230,000
Quivira Council BSA$126,000
Hunter Health$125,000
Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County$125,000
Heartspring$125,000
The Orpheum Theatre$125,000
Eastminster Presbyterian Church$80,000
United Way of the Plains$55,000
HumanKind$50,000
Friends University$40,000
AED FOUNDATION$37,000
Texas Equusearch$35,000
Pittsburg State University Foundation$25,000
Wichita State University Foundation$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Houstons House of Hope: $5k → 16%Still Creek Boys Ranch Inc: $5k → 22%Numana Inc: $7k → 8%EmberHope Youthville: $5k → 9%Bartow Family Resources INC: $1k → 10%MORNING STAR RANCH: $2k → 8%HumanKind: $50k → 8%Numana Inc: $7k → 8%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%Senior Services INC OF WICHITA FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%Empower Evergreen: $25k → 16%Assistance League of Wichita: $5k → 16%Assistance League of Wichita INC: $5k → 16%STARKEY: $10k → 16%Starkey INC: $5k → 16%Susan's Kids: $36k → 16%SUSAN'S KIDS: $18k → 16%SUSAN'S KIDS: $18k → 16%University of Kansas School of Medicine Wichita Medical Practice: $10k → 16%Urban League of Kansas: $2k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 16%GREATER WICHITA YMCA: $25k → 16%Rainbows United: $5k → 16%Urban League of Kansas Inc: $1k → 16%Rainbows United: $2k → 16%HARRY HYNES MEMORIAL HOSPICE: $1k → 16%Rainbows United: $1k → 16%Bridgets Cradles FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%Catholic Charities INC: $42k → 16%Greater Wichita YMCA: $6k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA: $5k → 16%Greater Wichita YMCA: $5k → 16%Greater Wichita YMCA: $4k → 16%Catholic Charities: $2k → 16%KETCH: $2k → 16%The Pando Initiative: $2k → 16%THE Pando Initiative INC: $2k → 16%The Pando Initiative: $2k → 16%The Pando Initiative: $2k → 16%Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice: $1k → 16%Wichita Childrens Home: $5k → 16%Wichita Childrens Home: $4k → 16%Wichita Children's Home: $4k → 16%Wichita Childrens Home: $3k → 16%Wichita Children's Home: $2k → 16%WICHITA CHILDRENS HOMES: $2k → 16%WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME: $2k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.
$6.3M · 149 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

149 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

149
151

Total granted

$6.3M
$626k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

64%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +13%
  • FU
    Friends University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +43%
  • TA
    The AED Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +450%

Funded once

  • SN
    SOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
  • SC
    SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue +67%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +225%
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.

1
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
2
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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3
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
4
Wichita Collegiate School

We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.

Education
5
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…

Education
6
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

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7
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
8
Wichita Eye Foundation

To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.

Health
9
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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10
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

—
11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

—
12
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Via Christi Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ima 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

171 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 171 of the 330 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
171/171
Grantees still filing
122/171
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $480,000 · OtherEASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHSedgwick County Zoo: $271,305 · OtherSedgwick County ZooQuivira Council BSA: $254,500 · OtherQuivira Council BSAThe Orpheum Theatre: $250,000 · OtherThe Orpheum TheatreEASTMINSTER CHURCH: $245,000 · OtherEASTMINSTER CHURCHWSU Foundation: $241,000 · OtherWSU FoundationHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $175,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $250,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTYTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC: $170,000 · Other+119 more: $1,489,381 · Other+119 moreFriends University: $289,000 · EducationFriends Universi…The AED Foundation Inc: $274,500 · EducationThe AED Foundati…PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $170,500 · EducationPHILLIPS FUNDAME…STERLING COLLEGE: $86,500 · EducationSTERLING COLLEGENEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $63,300 · EducationNEWMAN UNIVERSIT…WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $36,500 · Education+12 more: $133,705 · Education+12 moreMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $240,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEAT…DOC'S FRIENDS INC: $215,000 · Arts & CultureDOC'S FRIEN…KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $73,470 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBL…EXPLORATION PLACE INC: $56,081 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATION…THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $52,250 · Arts & CultureTHE KANSAS …KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $45,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $403,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $80,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $25,075 · PhilanthropySUSANS KIDS INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $51,840 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $40,500 · Human ServicesTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $26,500 · Human ServicesEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTARKEY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNUMANA INC: $13,500 · Human Services+16 more: $99,900 · Human ServicesHEARTSPRING INC: $188,200 · HealthHOPENET INC: $67,000 · HealthSHEPHERDS WAY INC: $50,000 · Health+8 more: $38,600 · HealthSOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,111 · Public Benefit
Other$3,826,186Education$1,054,005Arts & Culture$744,801Philanthropy$508,575Human Services$399,240Health$343,800Public Benefit$270,111

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $403,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFriends University: $289,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe AED Foundation Inc: $274,500 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetSOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $250,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $240,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDOC'S FRIENDS INC: $215,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetHEARTSPRING INC: $188,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $170,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC: $170,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $86,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $80,442 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $80,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $73,470 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $71,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHOPENET INC: $67,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $63,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC: $56,081 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $55,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $55,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $52,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $52,250 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $51,840 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS WAY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $40,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $37,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $26,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATION: $26,105 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $25,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetKnowledge Point Network: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,111 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTARKEY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD WICHITA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetREASONS TO BELIEVE: $19,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $17,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR: $16,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH HORIZONS INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FAITH WORK & ECONOMICS INC: $15,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetHIS HELPING HANDS INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends University ↗
  • Who funds The AED Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
  • Who funds DOC'S FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
  • Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SUSANS KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPENET INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM 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.

Wichita FoundationDwane L and Velma Lun…Textron Charitable Tr…United Way of the Pla…Lattner Family Founda…Goebel Family-Star Lu…Kansas Health Foundat…The Fidelity Bank Fou…Ima FoundationBruce G Cochener Foun…Belin FoundationDaniel J Taylor Famil…
Wichita FoundationKS119.7× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berry Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
55report 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.

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 330 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home