· Private foundation
David & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHARE MY MEALS | $10,000 |
| WE BUILD BLACK INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| PROJECTART | $10,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| A MOMENT OF MAGIC | $10,000 |
| WILDLIFE CENTER OF LONG ISLAND | $7,500 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue -40%
- WBWE BUILD BLACK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k
- CCCITY COLLEGE 21ST VENTURE FOUNDATIO2× · 2019–2020 · $20k
Funded once
- WBWILD BIRD FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +48%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Union County Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +30%
- CFCENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION & ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +191%
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 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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Arts Gowanus is a not-for-profit organization working to support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn
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.
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.
Cfo enriches the lives of nyc children in foster care through the transformative power of the arts. but nurturing their talents and interests, we empower children to envision brighter futures and pursue their full potential.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
To amplify the voices of families and strengthen the power of historically marginalized communities through engagement with art and culture, both within cultural institutions and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roads to Success Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
55 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. 55 of the 79 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION & ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ONEBLOCK INC ↗
- Who funds BIOBUS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE MY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds REFOUNDRY INC ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN SUPPORT OF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM OPERA THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NO LONGER EMPTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIANT STEP ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF MUSIC FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Arts By The People Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MOST INC ↗
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- Who funds START LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAMBA INC ↗
- Who funds A MOMENT OF MAGIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INC ↗
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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: 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
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 & Minnie Berk Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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