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David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$168kEducation$142kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$54kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$25kAnimals$23kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART ON THE BLOCK$10,000
HOOD CODE INC$10,000
WILLOW ARTS INC$10,000
TEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE$10,000
CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION$10,000
THE FOLLY TREE ARBORETUM$8,000
JUSTFIX INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHARE MY MEALS: $10k → 11%CIANA: $10k → 13%JESPY HOUSE: $5k → 16%SAVVY LADIES: $6k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $5k → 17%ROADS TO SUCCESS: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 4 repeat orgs$622k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
75

Total granted

$106k
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue -40%
  • WB
    WE BUILD BLACK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k
  • CC
    CITY COLLEGE 21ST VENTURE FOUNDATIO
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • RI
    REFOUNDRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -40%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
2
Community-Word Project Inc

Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.

Education
3
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Arts Gowanus Inc

Arts Gowanus is a not-for-profit organization working to support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn

Arts & Culture
5
The Dreamyard Project Inc

The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.

Arts & Culture
6
Theatre of the Oppressed Nyc Inc

Tonyc works through partnerships with social service organizations and city agencies to create theatre troupes with community members who face pressing social, economic, health, and human rights injustices.

Arts & Culture
7
The City Tutors Inc

The City Tutors (CT) is NYC's educational subway-a free, citywide learning and career center open to everyone, centering first-gen, immigrant, and historically low-resourced communities. We operate through a select network of partner…

Education
8
The Possibility Project Inc

The possibility project, inc. operates year long programs that bring together vastly diverse groups of youth from various backrounds and experiences. these youth undergo an intense year long creative process through which they write an…

Crime & Legal
9
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture
10
Careerwise New York Inc

Careerwise new york's mission is to forge pathways to meaningful careers through bold advocacy, innovative apprenticeships, and industry led partnerships, creating a dynamic talent ecosystem that connects ambition to opportunity for…

Education
11
Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal
12
New York School of the Arts Inc

New york school of the arts, inc. is a school offering courses and specialized workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture,printmaking,art theory and other subjects.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roads to Success Inc; the most unlike its peers is Giant Step Arts Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/59
Grantees still filing
34/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WE BUILD BLACK INC: $30,000 · OtherWE BUILD BLACK INCCITY COLLEGE 21ST VENTURE FOUNDATIO: $20,000 · Other+48 more: $345,000 · Other+48 moreART CREATES US INC: $16,300 · Arts & CultureART CREATES US INCTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTEACHERS & WRITERS …FRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MATERIAL…THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF MU…Arts By The People Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureArts By The People …GIANT STEP ARTS LTD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGIANT STEP ARTS LTDHARLEM OPERA THEATER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARLEM OPERA THEATE…NO LONGER EMPTY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNO LONGER EMPTY INCThe Laundromat Project Inc: $9,000 · Arts & CultureThe Laundromat Proj…DMF YOUTH INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureDMF YOUTH INCWNET: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePush Physical Theatre Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,600 · Arts & CultureTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION…PROJECT MOST INC: $10,000 · EducationPROJECT MOST I…START LIGHTHOUSE: $10,000 · EducationSTART LIGHTHOU…WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · EducationWORKING IN SUP…Hood Code Inc: $10,000 · EducationHood Code IncDEFY VENTURES INC: $10,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES …TEACHERS UNITE INC: $6,000 · EducationTEACHERS UNITE…ROADS TO SUCCESS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION & ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARE MY MEALS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAVVY LADIES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesJESPY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWILD BIRD FUND INC: $10,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC: $7,500 · AnimalsBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC: $5,000 · AnimalsBIOBUS INC: $10,000 · HealthAll Kings Project Inc: $10,000 · HealthA MOMENT OF MAGIC INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$395,000Arts & Culture$128,400Education$96,000Human Services$46,000Animals$22,500Health$20,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $16,300 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTEACHERS & WRITERS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetREFOUNDRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONEBLOCK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROADS TO SUCCESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT MOST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOBUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA MOMENT OF MAGIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION & ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSHARE MY MEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArts By The People Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetFAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTART LIGHTHOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMBA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIANT STEP ARTS LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHARLEM OPERA THEATER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAll Kings Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNO LONGER EMPTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDMF YOUTH INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Savvy: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAPPINESS IS CAMPING: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEACHERS UNITE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSAVVY LADIES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KOTA ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BEACON INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHUDSON RIVER COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJESPY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPush Physical Theatre Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Investors Foundation …Community Foundation …The Ford FoundationMax & Victoria Dreyfu…Lillian P Schenck Tw …West Harlem Developme…The Achelis & Bodman …Cornelia T Bailey Cha…Cornelia T Bailey Cha…
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ37.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Investors Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ford Foundation · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Lillian P Schenck Tw Lps Fund · West Harlem Development Corporation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Family Promise of Essex County Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Jespy House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Music for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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