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Berti Prough Family Foundation at a glance

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Berti Prough Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$2.4MHuman Services$200kHealth$148kCivil Rights$105kScience & Tech$85kEnvironment$50kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$47k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA PROMISE FUND$50,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $45k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $22k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT: $55k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $17k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $25k → 10%EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE: $10k → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $45k → 14%BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $50k → 9%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $12k → 8%THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT: $50k → 8%PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE: $10k → 17%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $20k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE: $10k → 17%BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $20k → 14%FRIENDS OF KENYA WILDLIFE TRUST: $10k → 8%WILDWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $69k → 14%WILDWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $55k → 14%WILDWOOD SCHOOL: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50k → 14%EVERY WOLF EVERY YEAR: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $600k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $446k → 14%LA'S PROMISE: $372k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $155k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $150k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $96k → 14%MPTF FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%LA PROMISE FUND: $50k → 14%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%MARLBOROUGH: $15k → 14%DESIRE TO INSPIRE: $10k → 14%ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ACADEMY MUSEUM: $10k → 14%ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 13 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
23

Total granted

$2.7M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+6%

Still filing today

77%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • LP
    LA PROMISE FUND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +287%
  • WS
    WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +33%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    5× · 2018–2023 · $75k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MF
    MPTF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $57k
  • University of San Francisco
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • EW
    EVERY WOLF EVERY YEAR
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Bhpoa Benevolent Fund. 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

23 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. 23 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA PROMISE FUND: $1,868,708 · EducationLA PROMISE FUNDWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $150,000 · EducationWILDWOOD SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $85,000 · Education+6 more: $144,700 · Education+6 moreCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $224,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY…BROWN ANNUAL FUND: $85,000 · OtherBROWN ANNUAL FUNDMPTF FOUNDATION: $57,200 · OtherMPTF FOUNDATIONEVERY WOLF EVERY YEAR: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $21,668 · OtherCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 · OtherUSC: $20,000 · Other+14 more: $104,666 · Other+14 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $75,000 · HealthTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthThe Representation Project: $105,000 · Civil RightsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $50,000 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $2,000 · AnimalsCOACHARTORG: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFILM2FUTURE: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentACADEMY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,248,408Other$557,534Health$106,500Civil Rights$105,000Animals$52,000Youth Development$28,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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 budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $1,868,708 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Representation Project: $105,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $34,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM2FUTURE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 LA PROMISE FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Representation Project ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COACHARTORG ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BHPOA BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds SPEE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STRAY CAT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds C5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
  • Who funds FILM2FUTURE ↗

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.

The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Chicago Community…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Annenberg FoundationPA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Berti Prough Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berti Prough Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 40 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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