Delaware · Private foundation
David and Karen Bere 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.
- $298k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $154k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations David and Karen Bere Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 | 23 | $298k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $589k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $492k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $496k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $698k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $753k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $908k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $512k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $1,183,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Christ Church of Oak Brook | $1,087,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Christianity Today International | $635,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lawndale Community Church | $333,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Lawndale Christian Legal Center | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Mike Kruger Ministries Inc | $292,000 | 9 | 17% |
| Young Life | $174,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Thornston Educational Fund | $154,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Timothy Christian Schools | $81,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($263k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David and Karen Bere Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 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: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · James and Susan Bere Family Foundation · Servant Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Dallas Foundation
How this is measured
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About David and Karen Bere Foundation
- How much does David and Karen Bere Foundation give?
- David and Karen Bere Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $298,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does David and Karen Bere Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (50%), Education (31%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are David and Karen Bere Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fuller Theological Seminary ($1.2M), Christ Church of Oak Brook ($1.1M), Christianity Today International ($635k).
- Does David and Karen Bere Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David and Karen Bere 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 David and Karen Bere Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax, The Signatry Charitable Trust, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is David and Karen Bere Foundation based?
- David and Karen Bere Foundation is based in DE.
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