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Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$505,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsFood & NutritionInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$997k17%
FY20233$8k0%
FY202224$69k0%
FY202132$71k16%
FY202027$54k22%
FY201928$51k18%
FY201825$52k0%
FY201728$53kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$633kPhilanthropy$310kRecreation & Sports$137kFood & Nutrition$130kHuman Services$39kInternational$38kEducation$28kCivil Rights$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($522k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital: $534,520 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America West Michigan: $33,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKids' Food Basket Inc: $29,450 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels Western Michigan: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $19,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $18,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAction for Post-Soviet Jewry Inc: $17,950 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSenior Neighbors Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $10,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLahey Clinic Inc: $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFaith Hospice: $6,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $6,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDavenport University: $6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Michigan Miracle League: $6,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Flint: $4,025 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Yad Sarah Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $2,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Michigan Inc: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaking Choices Michigan: $2,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMajor Chords for Minors: $1,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Arts Collaborative Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 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 29.

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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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Korff Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation

How much does Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation give?
Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,000,913 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Philanthropy (23%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital ($535k), Feeding America West Michigan ($34k), Kids' Food Basket Inc ($29k).
Does Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation, The Korff Foundation.
Where is Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation based?
Hy and Greta Berkowitz Foundation is based in MA.

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 49 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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