Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation Dossiers
Plinth

· Private foundation

Boerger Fam Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$380k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$435kAnimals$260kPublic Safety & Disaster$260kHuman Services$220kFood & Nutrition$210kEducation$160kArts & Culture$115kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$70,000
ASPCA$35,000
ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL$30,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
PHILABUNDANCE$20,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$20,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC$20,000
ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM$20,000
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA$10,000
PHILLY HOUSE$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE$10,000
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN (TASK)$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA$10,000
THE SEEING EYE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Guiding Eyes For The Blind Inc: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $70k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25k → 14%THE SEEING EYE INC: $10k → 4%WOODS SERVICES INC: $25k → 6%Guiding Eyes For The Blind Inc: $25k → 9%THE SEEING EYE INC: $10k → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%THE SEEING EYE INC: $10k → 4%WOODS SERVICES INC: $20k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 9%WOODS SERVICES INC: $10k → 6%Guiding Eyes For The Blind Inc: $20k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $20k → 9%PHILLY HOUSE: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MT
MI
NY
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 17 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
12

Total granted

$1.5M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

76%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +38%
  • Philabundance
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +83%
  • GE
    GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • FA
    FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +79%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
5
Lawrence Humane Society

The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community

Animals
6
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
7
Veterinarians Without Borders Usa

Our mission is to strengthen animal health and welfare to build more resilient communities. we do this by enhancing veterinary care, bolstering community disaster response and recovery, championing sustainable livelihoods, and improving…

International
8
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
9
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
10
Humane Fort Wayne Inc

Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.

Animals
11
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
12
Puppies Behind Bars Inc

Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Addisville Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Library SupportWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Homeless Services & ShelterChild and Family ServicesSenior Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceGovernment Accountability R…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support OrganizationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsVeteran Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $240,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & It…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INCWoods Services Inc — $55,000 · Human ServicesWoods Services IncTHE SEEING EYE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL — $160,000 · OtherST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOLTHE SALVATION ARMY — $125,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE ADDISVILLE REFORMED CHURCH — $60,000 · OtherTHE ADDISVILLE REFORMED CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSunday Breakfast Mission — $40,000 · OtherSunday Breakfast MissionANGEL ON A LEASH — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherA WOMAN'S PLACE — $20,000 · OtherWoods Services Foundation — $25,000 · OtherAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 · OtherNEWTOWN FIRE ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $30,000 · OtherMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL…Humane World for Animals Inc — $50,000 · AnimalsHumane World …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $35,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN …PROJECT K9 HERO — $25,000 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HE…GENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $20,000 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS…Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsPeaceful Vall…+1 more — $5,000 · AnimalsPhilabundance — $150,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanc…FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMER…MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $105,000 · HealthNATIONAL …MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · HealthMULTIPLE …ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC — $110,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $10,000 · International
Human Services$540,000Other$600,000Animals$225,000Food & Nutrition$200,000Health$155,000Arts & Culture$115,000International$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $150,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC — $110,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $105,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWoods Services Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWoods Services Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTOWN FIRE ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSUNDAY BREAKFAST RESCUE MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddisville Legacy Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetWHYY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Aetna Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Boerger Fam Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines