· Private foundation
HN and Frances C Berger Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+8 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Volunteers of America Michigan | $10,700,000 |
| Orlando Health Foundation | $800,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $500,000 |
| Palm Springs Air Museum | $500,000 |
| Cumberland College | $300,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $250,000 |
| Palm Springs Air Museum | $250,000 |
| The First Academy Inc | $250,000 |
| The Philanthropy Roundtable | $195,000 |
| Friends of the Cultural Center Inc | $150,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $150,000 |
| USC Arcadia Hospital Foundation | $110,000 |
| Xavier College Preparatory High School | $100,000 |
| Desert Forum Inc | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $977k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of HN and Frances C Berger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 55% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- LLLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH2× · 2021–2023 · $7.5M · revenue +44%
- OHOrlando Health Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +11%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center3× · 2020–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDEone grant, 2021 · $1.8M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
- TFTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +42%
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.
We foster reverence for life, relief of suffering, and compassion in loss for the terminally ill residents and their families in the communities we serve.
To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
To enrich and preserve the quality of life for residents by raising funds and garnering support to purchase, develop, enhance, preserve, promote, and expand the coachella valley's recreational activities, programs, parks, properties, and…
Desert views mission is to support an individuals healing practice of christian science by providing christian science nursing whenever there is a need.
We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.
The mission of the friends of the desert mountains is to preserve land, to support education, conservation and research in the coachella valley, and to act as the support organization for the santa rosa & san jacinto mountains national…
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.
We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.
The purpose of this corporation is to support desert community foundation, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation; california community foundation, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation; and orange county community…
To provide comprehensive, family-centered social, educational and behavioral health services that encourage children, adolescents and their families to lead self reliant, stable and productive lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desert Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Envolved Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
179 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. 179 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
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- Who funds PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
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- Who funds USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
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- Who funds THE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Regional Access Project Foundation · Anderson Childrens Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Champions Volunteer Foundation · Desert Community Foundation · Houston Family Foundation · Impact Through Golf Foundation · Food in Need of Distribution Inc
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 HN and Frances C Berger Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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