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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 FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Boerger Fam Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$380k39%
FY202416$280k13%
FY202315$225k7%
FY202214$215k14%
FY202113$270k38%
FY202012$260k75%
FY201910$250kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$240,00060%
St Labre Indian School$160,0006n/a
Philabundance$150,00070%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$150,00070%
The Salvation Army$125,0005n/a
St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc$110,00065%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$105,00050%
Morris Animal Foundation$70,00070%
Woods Services Inc$55,00030%
The Seeing Eye Inc$50,00040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Boerger Fam Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Vetdogs the Veterans K-9 Corps Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWoods Services Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject K9 Hero: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetA Woman's Place: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue Society Ltd: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNewtown Fire Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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 budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddisville Legacy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCovenant House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhyy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

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

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.

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About Boerger Fam Charitable Trust

How much does Boerger Fam Charitable Trust give?
Boerger Fam Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $380,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Boerger Fam Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Animals (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
Who are Boerger Fam Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($240k), St Labre Indian School ($160k), Philabundance ($150k).
Does Boerger Fam Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Boerger Fam Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Boerger Fam Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Boerger Fam Charitable Trust based?
Boerger Fam Charitable Trust is based in NJ.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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