· Private foundation
Berta Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way OF SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY | $35,000 |
| SKYCTC FOUNDATION | $13,331 |
| Loras College | $8,089 |
| Grace Christian Church | $5,000 |
| Expenses for Indigent Individuals | $3,500 |
| Hope House | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Operation Pride | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| Amen House | $1,000 |
| Smile from the Heart | $1,000 |
| BGHS | $750 |
| WKU | $500 |
| Barren River Child Advocacy Center | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- HIHOTEL INC6× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +60%
- OPOPERATION PRIDE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue ×18
- FUFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BCBG CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FAFOR A REAL CHANGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ECEDMONSON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
New directions creates and preserves homes, fosters community stability and supports families on their path to economic success.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Beacon of hope crisis center is a christ-centered organization empowering victims of domestic violence and sexual assualt to become self-sufficient by providing safety, education, and support.
Provides shelter for the homeless
Arise encourages, empowers and advocates for those affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. we inspire and educate citizens to create safer communities and break the cycle of violence.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
Shelter kc is a christ-centered community offering freedom and hope to the poor and homeless empowering them to have healthy relationships, dignity, and transformational growth.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amen House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 41 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 HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WROTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds AMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BARREN RIVER AREA CHILD ADVOCACY CE ↗
- Who funds ZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc · Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Berta Family Foundation Inc 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.
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