· Private foundation
Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Philadelphia, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $431k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k22 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $361k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA | $187,922 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $105,092 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $67,985 |
| EINSTEIN HEALTH CARE NETWORK | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $10,100 |
| ABRAMSON CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE | $4,200 |
| ASV | $2,609 |
| JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE | $1,854 |
| WEITZMAN | $1,800 |
| PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL | $1,658 |
| SOCIETY HILL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NMJAH | $1,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CONGRETION BETH OR | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 27 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK9× · 2017–2025 · $833k · revenue +156%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA9× · 2017–2025 · $687k · revenue +88%
- KFKISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- ACABRAMSON CANCER CENTER PENN MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $132k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $99k
- PMPENN MED PHILLY FIGHTS CANCERone grant, 2020 · $22k
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 167 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds KISSES FOR KYLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT THROUGH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAJNZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NAGEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Friends of Suenos ↗
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 Saramar Charitable Fund · Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Erlbaum Family Foundation · The Garbose Family Foundation William Garbose & Lynne Garbose Ttees · The Jordan and Deanna Berman Family Charitable Foundation · The Specter Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Snider Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
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 Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee 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.
- Hht Foundation — 30% 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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