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Charles P Berolzheimer 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.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$46kEnvironment$46kAnimals$37kHealth$32kArts & Culture$15kCommunity Improvement$13kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE RIVER PILOTS ASSOCIATION$13,000
SKYDOG SANCTUARY$11,000
HAGGIN MUSEUM$10,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$10,000
CLEAR LAKE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM FOUNDATION$4,000
THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$4,000
NOYO CENTER FOR MARINE SCIENCE$2,000
NAMASTE$1,000
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH: $5k → 10%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

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MA
CA
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HI
GA
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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$133k · 7 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$133k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsHealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • NC
    Noyo Center For Marine Science
    8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +313%
  • SD
    SKY DOG SANCTUARY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +12%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD
    2× · 2017–2019 · $24k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%
  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GM
    George Mark Childrens Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%

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
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
4
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
5
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
6
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

7
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
8
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
9
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
The Waverly School

The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…

Education
12
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette Partners in Education and the most unlike its peers is Art Explorers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%63%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,954

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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Noyo Center For Marine Science — $43,000 · AnimalsNoyo Center For Marine ScienceSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC — $31,000 · AnimalsSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC+1 more — $2,000 · AnimalsLITTLE RIVER PILOTS ASSOCIATION — $13,000 · OtherLITTLE RIVER PILOTS ASSOCIA…HAGGIN MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherHAGGIN MUSEUMTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOLUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONCLEAR LAKE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherCLEAR LAKE MASONIC LIBRARY …WILDCARE — $3,500 · OtherWILDCARE+4 more — $3,150 · Other+4 moreLafayette Partners in Education — $11,000 · EducationLafayette Partner…Vanderbilt University — $11,000 · EducationVanderbilt Univer…THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $4,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PREPA…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…+2 more — $2,000 · Education+2 moreCHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD — $23,750 · PhilanthropyCHILDRENS HEALT…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNIT…George Mark Childrens Fund — $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 · HealthOUR JOURNEY INC — $2,000 · HealthLarkin Street Youth Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesMendocino Land Trust — $2,000 · EnvironmentINATURALIST — $850 · Environment
Animals$76,000Other$48,650Education$31,000Philanthropy$26,750Health$10,000Human Services$5,000Environment$2,850

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 budgetNoyo Center For Marine Science — $43,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC — $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD — $23,750 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCARE — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR JOURNEY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMendocino Land Trust — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Explorers Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINATURALIST — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMendocino Arts Center Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Yelp FoundationCA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Yelp Foundation · Community Foundation of Mendocino County · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Charles P Berolzheimer Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charles P Berolzheimer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charles P Berolzheimer Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 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.

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