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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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$2.7MEducation$1.7MYouth Development$360kCrime & Legal$308kCommunity Improvement$61kInternational$58kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOK$50,000
CHRISTIANITY TODAY INTERNATIONAL$50,000
MIKE KRUGER MINISTRIES INC$33,000
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$25,000
LAWNDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH$18,000
CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS$12,000
THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND$12,000
THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
ALTAR FLY FISHING$10,000
NORTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$10,000
YOUNG LIFE$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$7,200
PILLAR CHURCH$6,000
GOOD WORKS COLLECTIVE$6,000
COME AND SEE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS: $15k → 15%HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CHAMPIONSHIP GREATNESS: $12k → 15%HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%CHAMPIONSHIP FATHERING: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%CHAMPIONSHIP FATHERING: $25k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 45 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
13

Total granted

$5.2M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+149%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationReligionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • CT
    Christianity Today International
    9× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +150%
  • LC
    LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +67%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • HC
    HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +591% · 62% of their budget
  • CP
    CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF EDINA
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • CF
    Community Frontline Of Fort Worth
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -9%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
2
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
3
Colleyville Covenant Christian

The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.

Education
4
The Woodlands Christian Academy

TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…

5
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
6
Olivet University

Providing guality Christian education to the network generation

Education
7
Asbury Theological Seminary

Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…

Education
8
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
9
Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion
10
The King's University

The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.

Education
11
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

12
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Development Association and the most unlike its peers is Hope for Children Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Christian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Independent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%9%<5yr13%13%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr22%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr22%53%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,308

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.

04the grantee network

36 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOK — $1,087,500 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOKLAWNDALE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $333,000 · OtherLAWNDALE COMMUNITY CHURCHYOUNG LIFE - CHICAGOLAND — $130,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE - CHICAGOLANDTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $81,500 · Other+34 more — $538,900 · Other+34 moreFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $1,183,000 · EducationFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND — $154,000 · EducationTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUNDIndiana University Foundation — $65,000 · Education+4 more — $56,800 · EducationChristianity Today International — $635,000 · ReligionChristianity Today In…Mike Kruger Ministries Inc — $292,000 · ReligionMike Kruger Ministrie…Friends of Young Life DuPage County Foundation — $57,500 · ReligionFriends of Young Life…+3 more — $41,400 · ReligionLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER — $300,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $7,500 · Crime & LegalYOUNG LIFE — $174,750 · Youth Development+1 more — $300 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $15,100 · Arts & CultureChampionship Greatness — $62,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES — $7,500 · Human Services
Other$2,170,900Education$1,458,800Religion$1,025,900Crime & Legal$307,500Youth Development$175,050Arts & Culture$110,100Human Services$104,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $1,183,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetChristianity Today International — $635,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER — $300,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMike Kruger Ministries Inc — $292,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $174,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND — $154,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS — $81,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChampionship Greatness — $62,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetFriends of Young Life DuPage County Foundation — $57,500 over 4y, 97% of budgetTHE FULLER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC — $41,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $32,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP — $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALTAR FLY FISHING — $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGood Works Collective — $17,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $15,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENCOUNTERING THE LOGOS MINISTRY — $15,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWheaton College — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCommunity Frontline Of Fort Worth — $9,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATION — $9,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBONA VISTA PROGRAMS INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NET FW INC — $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER — $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVITALCHURCH MINISTRY INC — $2,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OAKRIDGE SCHOOL — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
  • Who funds Christianity Today International
  • Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER
  • Who funds Mike Kruger Ministries Inc
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds THORNSTON EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC
  • Who funds TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation
  • Who funds Championship Greatness
  • Who funds Friends of Young Life DuPage County Foundation
  • Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC
  • Who funds CHICAGO WEST SIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HINSDALE CENTRAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN FRONTIER FELLOWSHIP
  • Who funds ALTAR FLY FISHING
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC
  • Who funds Good Works Collective
  • Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ENCOUNTERING THE LOGOS MINISTRY
  • Who funds Wheaton College
  • Who funds THILLEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HOPE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION

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.

Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David and Karen Bere 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to David and Karen Bere Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to David and Karen Bere Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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