· Private foundation
Bertsch Family Foundation
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 $10k8 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERSON SCHOOL | $10,676 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS WHITING SCHOOL OF ENG | $1,500 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM | $515 |
| DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN | $500 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $500 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| HALL OF FLAME FIRE MUSEUM | $416 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ESEMERSON SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +39%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +64%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +202%
- CNCDO Nepalone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -23%
- AAAnn Arbor Figure Skating Clubgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +29%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Maximize learning and teaching by bringing together the best in people and technology.
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 28 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 EMERSON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CDO Nepal ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bertsch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertsch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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