How much does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation give?

Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $479,326 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Animals (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Who are Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food for People Inc ($481k), Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation ($300k), Arcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc ($275k).

Does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Humboldt Area Foundation, Coast Central Credit Union, Humboldt Health Foundation.

Where is Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation based?

Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$479k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 20
Grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 27%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $55,536
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 33; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $14M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	18	$479k	22%
FY2024	22	$711k	27%
FY2023	22	$655k	45%
FY2022	26	$674k	54%
FY2021	26	$581k	65%
FY2020	23	$499k	61%
FY2019	33	$561k	70%
FY2018	21	$454k	81%

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$984kAnimals$827kFood & Nutrition$607kPublic Safety & Disaster$568kHuman Services$428kYouth Development$375kArts & Culture$241kPhilanthropy$227kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food for People Inc	$481,412	9	2%
Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation	$299,525	3	18%
Arcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc	$275,277	7	35%
Hospice of Humboldt Inc	$175,823	6	0%
Mirandas Rescue Inc	$160,000	4	11%
Northern California Community Blood Bank	$150,000	2	2%
Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest	$150,000	2	8%
Butler Valley Inc	$148,201	4	2%
Fortuna Senior Services Inc	$125,000	2	16%
Humboldt County Fair Association	$91,010	3	4%

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All grantees of Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Food for People Inc	$481,412	9	2%
Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation	$299,525	3	18%
Arcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc	$275,277	7	35%
Hospice of Humboldt Inc	$175,823	6	0%
Mirandas Rescue Inc	$160,000	4	11%
Northern California Community Blood Bank	$150,000	2	2%
Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest	$150,000	2	8%
Butler Valley Inc	$148,201	4	2%
Fortuna Senior Services Inc	$125,000	2	16%
Humboldt County Fair Association	$91,010	3	4%
Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods	$78,800	3	3%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation	$67,500	4	0%
Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice	$67,150	5	9%
Humboldt Senior Resource Center	$65,025	7	0%
Southern Humboldt Community Healthcare Foundation	$65,000	2	6%
Kinder Kids Montessori Inc	$60,000	1	n/a
Wild Souls Ranch	$60,000	2	8%
Access Humboldt	$56,888	4	4%
Mid Klamath Watershed Council	$50,000	1	1%
Free to Fly Foundation	$45,000	3	n/a
Eureka Rescue Mission	$40,000	1	3%
Eureka Concert and Film Center	$35,480	2	21%
Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc	$35,445	5	4%
Petrolia Volunteer Fire Department	$35,000	1	42%
Eureka Womans Club	$35,000	2	29%
Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives Inc	$32,400	2	27%
Humboldt Historical Society DBA Humboldt County Historical Society	$27,228	2	10%
Mission Teens Inc	$26,000	2	n/a
Eel River Valley Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Redwood Art Association	$25,000	1	21%
Sorrel Leaf Healing Center Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Humboldt Amateur Radio Club Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Open Door Community Health Centers	$25,000	1	0%
Companion Animal Foundation	$24,600	1	27%
Northcoast Childrens Services Inc	$21,750	1	0%
Del Norte Habitat for Humanity Inc	$21,650	1	n/a
Coastal Hospice Inc	$20,986	1	2%
Redwoods Rural Health Center Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Southern Trinity Area Rescue Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Redwood Community Radio Inc	$19,400	1	4%
Kneeland Fire Protection District	$14,465	1	5%
North Coast Stand Down	$10,015	1	n/a
Clarke Historical Museum	$10,000	1	4%
Redwood Teen Challenge	$10,000	1	1%
College of the Redwoods Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Mattole Valley Resource Center	$10,000	1	4%
Humboldt Humane	$9,890	1	n/a
Adult Day Health Care of Mad River	$7,200	1	1%
Cultural Fire Management Council	$7,100	1	1%
St Joseph Catholic Church	$6,855	1	n/a
Humboldt Bay Fire	$6,511	1	n/a
Trinity County Fair Association Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Eureka Heritage Society	$5,125	1	n/a
Humboldt Permaculture Guild	$5,000	1	n/a
Rural Human Services	$5,000	1	0%
Redwood Coast Village	$5,000	1	4%
Redwood Coast Montessori	$5,000	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast Inc	$5,000	1	2%
City of Eureka	$5,000	1	n/a
McKinleyville Senior Center	$4,310	1	11%
Hayfork Transition	$4,215	1	n/a
United Way of the Wine Country	$4,000	1	0%
North Coast Growers Association	$3,000	1	1%
Trinity County Office of Education	$3,000	1	n/a
Humboldt Made Corporation	$3,000	1	n/a
Project Linus	$2,250	2	0%
Humboldt Trails Council	$2,240	1	n/a
Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department	$2,000	1	1%
Jacoby Creek Land Trust	$2,000	1	4%
The Salvation Army	$2,000	1	n/a
Mattole Valley Community Center Inc	$1,900	1	5%
The Watershed Research & Training Center	$1,600	1	0%
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Humboldt	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 54.

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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.

Humboldt Area FoundationCA104× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · Coast Central Credit Union · Humboldt Health Foundation · Patricia D & William B Smullin Foundation · St Joseph Hospital of Eureka · The Schmidbauer Family Foundation · Vintage Bmw House · Tarbell Family Foundation · The Bob and Jennie Canevari Foundation Inc · Bertha Russ Lytel Foundation · California Fire Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare 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 Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation

How much does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation give?: Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $479,326 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Animals (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food for People Inc ($481k), Sequoia Park Zoo Foundation ($300k), Arcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc ($275k).
Does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Humboldt Area Foundation, Coast Central Credit Union, Humboldt Health Foundation.
Where is Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation based?: Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation is based in CA.