· Private foundation
J and K Berman Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEE TURTLES | $109,000 |
| STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | $50,061 |
| SEE TURTLES | $27,500 |
| ACTION FOR MANTAS | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN OF VIETNAM | $8,000 |
| WOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC | $4,000 |
| MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $3,600 |
| SEE TURTLES | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SEA TURTLE SOCIETY | $685 |
| CHILDREN OF VIETNAM | $600 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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 9% of J and K Berman Memorial 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- STSEE TURTLES8× · 2018–2025 · $468k · revenue +439%
- SFSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT7× · 2019–2025 · $227k · revenue +82%
- AFAction For Mantas5× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $315 · revenue +32%
- ENECOVIVA NFPone grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue -85%
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.
Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration
Turtle Foundation implements sea turtle conservation and protection programs and seeks to raise funds for these programs. Turtle Foundation also supports sea turtle conservation programs implemented by other conservation organizations.
Connectocean conservation and outreach is dedicated to fostering ocean stewardship and conserving aquatic ecosystems through community engagement, education, and collaborative conservation efforts. our mission is to connect communities to…
WIDECAST is a scientific network active in 45 nations and territories. The network was chartered in 1981 with the objective of preventing the extinction of six species of endangered sea turtles that live in the wider caribbean region.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
Our mission at Sustainable Oceans and Reefs (SOAR) is to incorporate collaborative approaches to achieve our overarching goal of restoring and conserving coral reefs. We accomplish this by embracing sustainability, holistic perspectives,…
The Ocean Genome Atlas Project OGAP aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80 of the extant marine species worldwide. Deploying a fleet of advanced but cost effective research…
To stabilize the population of marine species in danger, especially sharks and rays in the caribbean of guatemala; through science and community strengthening which will provide the creation of alternative livelihoods, which eventually…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance to End Sexual Violence and the most unlike its peers is Action for Mantas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 SEE TURTLES ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Action For Mantas ↗
- Who funds Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children ↗
- Who funds Pacific Links Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF VIETNAM ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SEA TURTLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WOMEN RISE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ECOVIVA NFP ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 J and K Berman Memorial 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.
- See Turtles — 11% 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.