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Harold and Renee Berger Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$86k
Granted FY2018
25
Grants FY2018
24
Organizations funded FY2018
58%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$250
Largest grant, FY2018
$38,225
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
4
Total assets, FY2018
$198k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 58% of the organizations Harold and Renee Berger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201824$47k58%
FY201715$10kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$73kReligion$21kArts & Culture$14kPhilanthropy$13kCivil Rights$3kInternational$2kAnimals$256Public Benefit$255Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Germantown Jewish Centre$21,2722n/a
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History$5,11810%
Curtis Institute of Music$2,75020%
Anti-Defamation League$2,75010%
Hias Inc$2,40020%
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media$2,00020%
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society$1,50010%
1807 & Friends Inc$1,0502n/a
Zoological Society of Philadelphia$25620%
Ego Po Inc$2501n/a
Show all 17 grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold and Renee Berger Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $5,118 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCurtis Institute of Music: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Jewish Film and Media: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZoological Society of Philadelphia: $256 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Constitution Center: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the American Revolution: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barnes Foundation: $143 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee of Seventy: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Mount Airy Neighbors Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Harold and Renee Berger Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Harold and Renee Berger Foundation

How much does Harold and Renee Berger Foundation give?
Harold and Renee Berger Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $85,586 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Harold and Renee Berger Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are Harold and Renee Berger Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Germantown Jewish Centre ($21k), Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History ($5k), Curtis Institute of Music ($3k).
Does Harold and Renee Berger Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harold and Renee Berger Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harold and Renee Berger Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Harold and Renee Berger Foundation based?
Harold and Renee Berger Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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