· Private foundation
Dan and Sheila Berlin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| COLORADO UPLIFT | $10,000 |
| MAB | $10,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY ALLIANCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 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
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
- CUCOLORADO UPLIFT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +41%
- TWTREES WATER AND PEOPLE3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +104%
- TFThe Food Bank for Larimer County2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +434%
- CSCROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +15%
- SFSALUD FAMILY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Empowering victims and creating a bridge to close the gap for people with disabilities through discovery of self-resiliency by providing support and services.
Vision for Chicago is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing equitable access to comprehensive eye care for young adults in underserved neighborhoods. Through localized programs we provide free vision screenings and…
To promote the full inclusion and integration of people with all types of disabilities into all levels of society.
Bayaud enterprises was founded in 1969 to alleviate barriers to self-sufficiency for adults living with mental health, intellectual and physical disabilities. soon after, bayaud expanded services to single adults who are rebuilding from…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Community based services is a not-for-profit provider agency that offers both habilitative and rehabilitative services to the developmentally disabled under the auspices of the state of new york office for people with developmental…
Empowering community, enacting change. colorado village collaborative exists to bridge the gap between the streets and stable housing by creating and operating transformational shelter communities in partnership with people experiencing…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Team See Possibililtes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 Sea to See ↗
- Who funds Team See Possibililtes ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds THE GEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK 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: 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
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 Dan and Sheila Berlin 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
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.
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