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J and K Berman Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$233k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$546kInternational$333kHealth$11kEducation$8kPhilanthropy$350Civil Rights$315Environment$250
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $159k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC: $2k → 11%ACTION FOR MANTAS: $25k → 12%WOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC: $1k → 9%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $38k → 8%WOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC: $4k → 12%SEE TURTLES: $109k → 12%ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $3k → 14%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%ACTION FOR MANTAS: $10k → 11%ACTION FOR MANTAS: $20k → 12%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $67k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $15k → 8%SEE TURTLES: $70k → 12%ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $1k → 14%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%ACTION FOR MANTAS: $6k → 11%ACTION FOR MANTAS: $16k → 12%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $7k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $57k → 12%ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $1k → 14%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $45k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $53k → 12%ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $1k → 14%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $30k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $44k → 12%ALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $1k → 14%PACIFIC LINKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $32k → 12%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $28k → 12%STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 14%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $11k → 12%MITRATA-NEPAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 11%SEE TURTLES: $5k → 12%SEE TURTLES: $4k → 12%SEE TURTLES: $3k → 12%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

IL
OR
PA
CA
MO
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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 9% of J and K Berman Memorial Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

J and K Berman Memorial Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$889k · 9 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$889k
$565

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ST
    SEE TURTLES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $468k · revenue +439%
  • SF
    STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    7× · 2019–2025 · $227k · revenue +82%
  • MF
    Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $315 · revenue +32%
  • EN
    ECOVIVA NFP
    one grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue -85%
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.

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Galapagos Whale Shark Project
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2
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
4
Turtle Foundation

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.

Animals
5
Connectocean Conservation and Outreach Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Widecast Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Inc

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.

Animals
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Maia

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.

International
9
Global Foundation for Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Inc
Philanthropy
10
Sustainable Ocean and Reefs Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Ocean Genome Atlas Project

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…

Science & Tech
12
Blue World Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance to End Sexual Violence; 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.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE TURTLES: $468,030 · AnimalsSEE TURTLESAction For Mantas: $77,700 · AnimalsAction For Mantas+1 more: $685 · AnimalsSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $227,219 · InternationalSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELO…Pacific Links Foundation: $41,471 · InternationalPacific Links Foundation+2 more: $9,219 · InternationalMitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children: $55,276 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $10,600 · HealthWOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC: $8,000 · EducationTOGETHER WOMEN RISE: $350 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $315 · Crime & LegalECOVIVA NFP: $250 · Other
Animals$546,415International$277,909Youth Development$55,276Health$10,600Education$8,000Philanthropy$350Crime & Legal$315Other$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSEE TURTLES: $468,030 over 8y, 15% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $227,219 over 7y, 17% of budgetAction For Mantas: $77,700 over 5y, 18% of budgetMitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children: $55,276 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetPacific Links Foundation: $41,471 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE OF HOPE FOR SUICIDE LOSS SURVIVORS: $10,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN OF VIETNAM: $8,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN DIVERS HALL OF FAME INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $619 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WOMEN RISE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $315 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOVIVA NFP: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 J and K Berman Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J and K Berman Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • See Turtles: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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