Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $431k
- Granted FY2022
- 28
- Grants FY2022
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2022
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.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $187,922
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 4
- Total assets, FY2022
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 59% of the organizations Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 27 | $326k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $226k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $129k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $621k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $303k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $754k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy in Manayunk | $833,185 | 9 | 3% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $687,300 | 9 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Or | $54,498 | 7 | n/a |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $28,360 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $25,154 | 2 | 0% |
| Kisses for Kyle Foundation | $15,450 | 4 | 2% |
| Insight Through Education Inc | $13,815 | 2 | 1% |
| Imajnz Foundation | $10,600 | 1 | 2% |
| The Nagen Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Learning Venture | $7,717 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee supplied at peak.
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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.
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
How this is measured
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About Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee
- How much does Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee give?
- Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee reported 28 grants totaling $430,669 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (29%), Health (26%).
- Who are Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Academy in Manayunk ($833k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($687k), Congregation Beth Or ($54k).
- Does Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Saramar Charitable Fund, Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc, The William Penn Foundation.
- Where is Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee based?
- Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee is based in PA.
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