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Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation at a glance

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Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$479k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMBOLDT DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ORGANIZAT$55,536
FOOD FOR PEOPLE$50,000
HUMBOLDT DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ORGANIZAT$41,500
BUTLER VALLEY INC$40,951
Individual grant recipient$40,000
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF THE NORTH$40,000
ARCATA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSN$31,386
HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT$25,000
EUREKA WOMAN'S CLUB$25,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$20,000
DOUGLAS CITY COMMUNITY SERVICES DIS$19,860
VIETNAM VETERANS OF CA$16,600
FREE TO FLY FOUNDATION$15,000
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF THE NORTH$13,818
HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS$10,910
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LINUS PROJECT: $1k → 8%COASTAL HOSPICE: $21k → 17%LINUS PROJECT: $1k → 8%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $30k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $30k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $30k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $25k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $25k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $15k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $11k → 18%HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT: $10k → 18%HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS: $21k → 18%HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS: $15k → 18%HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS: $11k → 18%HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS: $11k → 18%HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY HOS: $9k → 18%McKINLEYVILLE SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 18%ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE OF MAD RIVER: $7k → 18%MATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCES CENTER: $10k → 18%FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC: $100k → 18%FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 34 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
85

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+9%

Still filing today

68%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +106%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +55%
  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK
    2× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HA
    HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION-SEQUOIA PK
    one grant, 2024 · $101k
  • KK
    Kinder Kids Montessori Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue ×26
  • HC
    HUMBOLDT COUNTY SHERIFF'S ORGANIZAT
    one grant, 2024 · $53k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Humboldt County Historical Association
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2
Humboldt County Animal Shelter Inc

The Organization's mission is to provide temporary sanctuary and shelter for unwanted, lost and neglected animals, to promote the humane care and treatment of dogs and cats through education, and to actively advocate pet popluation control.

Animals
3
Redwood Coast Humane Society

Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.

Animals
4
Redwood County Historical Society

Historical preservation

Arts & Culture
5
Humboldt County Memorial Hospital Foundation

To solicit gifts for support of the Humboldt County Memorial Hospital and to improve the health and well-being of the citizens of Humboldt County.

Health
6
Redwood Community Action Agency

The purpose of redwood community action agency is to mobilize and coordinate antipoverty resources within Humboldt county, California and to preserve land for scenic, educational and open space opportunities.

Human Services
7
Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council

Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.

Community Improvement
8
Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks

The Friends of Huddart and Wunderlich Parks is a group of park enthusiasts and stewards who provide a wide range of programs and events in two historic redwood parks in the heart of the Bay Area. We lead hikes, provide environmental…

Environment
9
El Dorado County Humane Society

Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.

Animals
10
Humboldt Community Daycare Inc Kiddie Cats Child Care and Learning

To provide quality child care in an environment that engages young minds through learning and play.

Human Services
11
Life Plan Humboldt

To plan build and support the first resident led and not-for-profit community for active seniors in Humboldt County. Humboldt seniors will have secure accessible homes with support if needed in a community that encourages a healthy…

Housing & Shelter
12
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc

Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humboldt County Fair Association; the most unlike its peers is Cultural Fire Management Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherNORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANKREDWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO: $112,000 · OtherHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION-SEQUOIA PK: $100,600 · OtherHUMBOLDT DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ORGANIZAT: $97,036 · OtherHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $130,600 · Other+93 more: $1,811,773 · Other+93 moreFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $481,412 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR PEOP…Humboldt County Fair Association: $91,010 · Food & NutritionHumboldt Coun…+1 more: $3,000 · Food & NutritionSEQUOIA PARK ZOO FOUNDATION: $299,525 · AnimalsSEQUOIA PAR…MIRANDAS RESCUE INC: $160,000 · AnimalsMIRANDAS RE…Companion Animal Foundation: $24,600 · Animals+1 more: $9,890 · AnimalsHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC: $175,823 · Human ServicesHOSPICE O…FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesFORTUNA S…Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice: $67,150 · Human ServicesHeart of …Coastal Hospice Inc: $20,986 · Human Services+4 more: $23,760 · Human Services+4 moreArcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc: $275,277 · Public Safety & DisasterPETROLIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $35,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBUTLER VALLEY INC: $148,201 · HealthSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthSORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $25,000 · HealthREDWOODS RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentWILD SOULS RANCH: $60,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,662,009Food & Nutrition$575,422Animals$494,015Human Services$412,719Public Safety & Disaster$310,277Health$283,201Youth Development$215,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $481,412 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSEQUOIA PARK ZOO FOUNDATION: $299,525 over 3y, 18% of budgetArcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc: $275,277 over 7y, 35% of budgetHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC: $175,823 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMIRANDAS RESCUE INC: $160,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK: $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest: $150,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBUTLER VALLEY INC: $148,201 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION: $130,600 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHumboldt County Fair Association: $91,010 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Redwoods: $78,800 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of the Redwoods Community Hospice: $67,150 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetHumboldt Senior Resource Center: $65,025 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetWILD SOULS RANCH: $60,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetACCESS HUMBOLDT: $56,888 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEUREKA RESCUE MISSION: $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEUREKA CONCERT AND FILM CENTER: $35,480 over 2y, 21% of budgetHealy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc: $35,445 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetPETROLIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $35,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetEureka Womans Club: $35,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC: $32,400 over 2y, 27% of budgetHumboldt Historical Society DBA Humboldt County Historical Society: $27,228 over 2y, 10% of budgetREDWOOD ART ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSORREL LEAF HEALING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompanion Animal Foundation: $24,600 over 1y, 27% of budgetNorthcoast Childrens Services Inc: $21,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Hospice Inc: $20,986 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREDWOODS RURAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREDWOOD COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $19,400 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetKNEELAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $14,465 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetREDWOOD TEEN CHALLENGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMATTOLE VALLEY RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetADULT DAY HEALTH CARE OF MAD RIVER: $7,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCultural Fire Management Council: $7,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTRINITY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRural Human Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREDWOOD COAST VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetREDWOOD COAST MONTESSORI: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the North Coast Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMCKINLEYVILLE SENIOR CENTER: $4,310 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEQUOIA PARK ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Arcata Vol Firefighters Assn Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRANDAS RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORTUNA SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Humboldt County Fair Association ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice ↗
  • Who funds Humboldt Senior Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kinder Kids Montessori Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILD SOULS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS HUMBOLDT ↗
  • Who funds MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds EUREKA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds EUREKA CONCERT AND FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc ↗
  • Who funds PETROLIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds Eureka Womans Club ↗
  • Who funds AFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗

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 Foundat…Coast Central Credit …Humboldt Health Found…Patricia D & William …St Joseph Hospital of…The Schmidbauer Famil…Vintage Bmw HouseTarbell Family Founda…The Bob and Jennie Ca…Bertha Russ Lytel Fou…California Fire Found…Sisters of St Joseph …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 124 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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