· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CONGRETION BETH OR | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
97 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. 97 of the 167 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hht Foundation: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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