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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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
117
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$19MPublic Benefit$11MEducation$6.2MArts & Culture$3.8MHuman Services$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.6MYouth Development$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+8 grants · $14M
$15,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$471M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Volunteers of America Michigan$10,700,000
Orlando Health Foundation$800,000
Palm Springs Air Museum$500,000
Samaritan's Purse$500,000
Cumberland College$300,000
Pacific Legal Foundation$250,000
The First Academy Inc$250,000
Palm Springs Air Museum$250,000
The Philanthropy Roundtable$195,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$150,000
Friends of the Cultural Center Inc$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Gathering Hope: $20k → 8%The Unforgettables Foundation: $25k → 14%Gathering Hope: $15k → 8%Healthnetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%The Unforgettables Foundation: $20k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT: $50k → 11%Hope Through Housing Foundation: $25k → 14%Ability First: $50k → 14%Ability First: $50k → 14%Galilee Center: $15k → 11%Galilee Center: $5k → 11%Operation Safehouse Inc: $50k → 11%Operation Safe House Inc: $5k → 11%Father's Heart Ranch: $5k → 11%Childnet Youth and Family Services: $10k → 14%Ability First: $40k → 14%Ability First: $25k → 14%Braille Institute of America Inc: $25k → 14%Angel View Inc: $35k → 11%Angel View Inc: $20k → 11%Angel View Inc: $5k → 11%Angel View Inc: $5k → 11%Hidden Harvest: $25k → 11%American Red Cross: $50k → 11%American Red Cross: $5k → 11%Martha's Village & Kitchen: $20k → 11%Desert Ability Center: $25k → 11%Martha's Village & Kitchen: $11k → 11%Refuge Pregnancy Center: $10k → 11%About Families: $25k → 11%Martha's Village & Kitchen: $10k → 11%Narrow Door: $5k → 11%Desert Ability Center: $10k → 11%Narrow Door: $5k → 11%Martha's Village & Kitchen: $5k → 11%Elder Love USA: $25k → 11%Family YMCA of the Desert: $25k → 11%Family YMCA of the Desert: $25k → 11%FAMILY HEALTH & SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $25k → 11%Family YMCA of the Desert: $25k → 11%Desert Best Friend's Closet: $25k → 11%Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66: $30k → 11%Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66: $25k → 11%Desert Best Friend's Closet: $9k → 11%Variety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66: $10k → 11%Family YMCA of the Desert: $5k → 11%Desert Best Friend's Closet: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of HN and Frances C Berger Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 55%.

HN and Frances C Berger Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 127 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
119

Total granted

$37M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+5%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LL
    LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH
    2× · 2021–2023 · $7.5M · revenue +44%
  • OH
    Orlando Health Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +113%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3.1M · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • TF
    TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +42%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospice of the Valleys Sc Inc

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.

Human Services
2
The Desert Sanctuary Inc

To provide shelter and counseling for victims of domestic violence in the Barstow area.

Human Services
3
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce

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…

Community Improvement
4
Desert Recreation Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
5
Desert View

Desert views mission is to support an individuals healing practice of christian science by providing christian science nursing whenever there is a need.

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6
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
7
Friends of the Desert Mountains

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…

Animals
8
Barlow Respiratory Hospital

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.

Health
9
Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation

The mission of the coachella valley journalism foundation is to promote and support excellent, sustainable community journalism in the coachella valley.

Arts & Culture
10
La Paloma Family Services Inc

We build relationships that enhance the development of skills, foster a sense of worth and enhance a belief in each child's individual potential.

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11
D&D Support Foundation

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…

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12
Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desert Forum Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

179 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
172/179
Grantees still filing
122/179
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $10,700,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $7,500,000 · OtherLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTHCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE: $1,800,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF RIVERSIDE+112 more: $13,586,259 · Other+112 moreOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $3,700,000 · HealthOrlando Health Found…Eisenhower Medical Center: $3,150,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical C…USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $810,000 · HealthUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $609,616 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATI…+17 more: $1,412,600 · Health+17 moreTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $975,000 · PhilanthropyXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $634,000 · PhilanthropyTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $59,000 · PhilanthropyPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $1,870,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $550,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $205,300 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $900,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $850,000 · EducationTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS: $165,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $151,600 · Education+13 more: $419,000 · EducationMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $450,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $165,000 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $149,721 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC: $76,066 · Human ServicesVariety Childrens Charities of the Desert Tent 66: $68,000 · Human ServicesAngel View Inc: $67,000 · Human Services+22 more: $693,125 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000,000 · Religion
Other$33,586,259Health$9,682,216Philanthropy$2,668,000Arts & Culture$2,625,300Education$2,485,600Human Services$1,748,912Religion$1,000,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $7,500,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $3,700,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $3,150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $1,870,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $975,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $950,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $900,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $850,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $810,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetCEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $634,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $609,616 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Cultural Center Inc: $550,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $495,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $490,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $463,240 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22: $450,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetDesert Forum Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $325,496 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCoronado Hospital Foundation: $315,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $310,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ALANDALE: $270,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY: $215,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $207,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHAWAIIAN LEGACY REFORESTATION INITIATIVE: $185,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPAWS & HEARTS: $179,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $172,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PARTNERSHIP FOR SUCCESS: $165,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $165,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $151,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $149,721 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMERS COACHELLA VALLEY: $134,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY BOXING CLUB: $125,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood Now Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WELL IN THE DESERT INC: $76,066 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs: $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $73,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetRiverside University Health System Foundation: $73,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budget
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 LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds DESERT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 ↗
  • Who funds Desert Forum Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds Coronado Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ALANDALE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CATHEDRAL CITY ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
  • Who funds THE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bighorn Golf Club Cha…Inland Empire Communi…Regional Access Proje…Anderson Childrens Fo…The Grace Helen Spear…The Auen FoundationThe Coeta and Donald …The Champions Volunte…Desert Community Foun…Houston Family Founda…Impact Through Golf F…Food in Need of Distr…
Bighorn Golf Club Charities IncCA129.5× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization HN and Frances C Berger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HN and Frances C Berger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to HN and Frances C 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.

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 279 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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