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Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc

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.

$778
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$105
Largest grant, FY2025
$400
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$38k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther
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 arriving5$778100%
FY20248$2k100%
FY20238$331100%
FY20226$3k100%
FY20211$7000%
FY20201$750100%
FY20171$525n/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3kReligion$2kHuman Services$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$600Philanthropy$300Education$250International$225Food & Nutrition$105Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
AR
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMind Your Brain Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMain Line Health Inc: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTara Miller Melanoma Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBand of Parents Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson Health Corporation F/K/A Albert Einstein Healthcare Network: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTri County Humane Society: $20 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 10.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc

How much does Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc give?
Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $778 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (37%), Religion (23%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wounded Warrior Project Inc ($1k), Mind Your Brain Foundation ($1k), Har Zion Temple ($800).
Does Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc 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 Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc based?
Celia Wachs Berman Foundation Inc is based in PA.

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 31 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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