Colorado · Private foundation
Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation
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.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $300k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $366k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $337k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $221k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $250k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $305k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea to See | $250,000 | 3 | 90% |
| Team See Possibililtes | $110,000 | 2 | 68% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $108,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Trees Water and People | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Disabled Resource Services Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gem Foundation | $21,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crossroads Safehouse Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea to See | $250,000 | 3 | 90% |
| Team See Possibililtes | $110,000 | 2 | 68% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $108,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Trees Water and People | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Disabled Resource Services Inc | $31,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Food Bank for Larimer County | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Gem Foundation | $21,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crossroads Safehouse Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mab Community Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Matthews House | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Divine Love World Charity Inc | $10,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Elevate New York Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels for Fort Collins Colorado Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Achilles International Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Homeward Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Anschutz Family Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · United Way of Larimer County · El Pomar Foundation · The Poudre Sand Fund · Colina Foundation · The Food Bank for Larimer County · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · Nextfifty Initiative
How this is measured
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About Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation
- How much does Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation give?
- Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $299,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Employment (16%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Sea to See ($250k), Team See Possibililtes ($110k), Colorado Uplift Inc ($108k).
- Does Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation 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 Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Woodward Governor Charitable Trust, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado, Anschutz Family Foundation.
- Where is Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation based?
- Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation is based in CO.
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