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J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411

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.

$181k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$9.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$181k20%
FY202410$553k30%
FY20237$485k57%
FY20226$297k33%
FY20217$281k29%
FY202016$181kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$821kPublic Safety & Disaster$285kHealth$234kAnimals$175kEducation$129kArts & Culture$75kPublic Benefit$55kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Zoological Society$200,00060%
Alexian Brothers Health System$200,00010%
Rosary High School$100,0001n/a
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$75,00030%
American Freedom Foundation$50,00016%
University of St Francis$15,00020%
Silver Cross Foundation$14,50021%
Casa of River Valley$12,50050%
Lewis University$8,00020%
Illinois State University Foundation$6,40010%
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All grantees of J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Zoological Society$200,00060%
Alexian Brothers Health System$200,00010%
Rosary High School$100,0001n/a
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$75,00030%
American Freedom Foundation$50,00016%
University of St Francis$15,00020%
Silver Cross Foundation$14,50021%
Casa of River Valley$12,50050%
Lewis University$8,00020%
Illinois State University Foundation$6,40010%
A Safe Haven Foundation$5,00010%
Northern Illinois Food Bank$5,00010%
Holly Club Co Larson & Associates Ltd$2,5001n/a
Illinois Family Institute$2,00020%
Will Grundy Medical Clinic$2,00020%
Joliet Area Community Hospice Corp$1,45010%
United Cerebral Palsy Center for Disability Services$1,00010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Zoological Society: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlexian Brothers Health System: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Freedom Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUniversity of St Francis: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSilver Cross Foundation: $14,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCasa of River Valley: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLewis University: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois State University Foundation: $6,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Safe Haven Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Illinois Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Family Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWill Grundy Medical Clinic: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJoliet Area Community Hospice Corp: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy Center for Disability Services: $1,000 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 15.

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.

United Way of Will CountyIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Will County · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411

How much does J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 give?
J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 reported 5 grants totaling $181,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Health (13%).
Who are J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Chicago Zoological Society ($200k), Alexian Brothers Health System ($200k), Rosary High School ($100k).
Does J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Will County, AbbVie Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 based?
J D Bergman Charitable Foundation 23-58411 is based in IL.

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 29 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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