· Private foundation
Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EUREKA WOMAN'S CLUB | $25,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT | $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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FFFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +106%
- HOHOSPICE OF HUMBOLDT INC6× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +55%
- WCWillow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- HAHUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION-SEQUOIA PKone grant, 2024 · $101k
- KKKinder Kids Montessori Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue ×26
- HCHUMBOLDT COUNTY SHERIFF'S ORGANIZATone grant, 2024 · $53k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
Historical preservation
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.
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.
Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.
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…
Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.
To provide quality child care in an environment that engages young minds through learning and play.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humboldt County Fair Association and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 Willow Creek Youth Partnership Inc Dream Quest ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK ↗
- 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 WILD SOULS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Kinder Kids Montessori Inc ↗
- 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 Eureka Womans Club ↗
- Who funds PETROLIA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE HOMELESS HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
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.
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
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 Christine & Jalmer Berg Foundation 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.
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.