· Private foundation
Berta Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Berta Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berta Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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