Missouri · Private foundation
Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $430k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 35 | $430k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $350k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $410k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $415k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $450k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $400k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $390k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $400k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York Youth Symphony Inc | $125,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Manhattan School of Music | $123,000 | 7 | 0% |
| American Symphony Orchestra | $110,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Little Orchestra Societyorpheon Inc | $109,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Newark School of the Arts | $105,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Inc | $100,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Perkins Center for the Arts | $90,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance | $84,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Discovery Orchestra Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 5% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($677k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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.
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How this is measured
About Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation
- How much does Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation give?
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $430,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Education (10%), Youth Development (1%).
- Who are Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Youth Symphony Inc ($125k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($125k), Manhattan School of Music ($123k).
- Does Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc, D'Addario Foundation Inc.
- Where is Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation based?
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation is based in MO.
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