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John L Berberich Charitable Trust

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.

$203k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,100
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$5.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations John L Berberich Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$193k33%
FY20245$110k80%
FY20231$50kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$235kEducation$91kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kReligion$17k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central Catholic High School$80,0002n/a
Fire Foundation of Central Illinois$20,0002n/a
Catholic Diocese of Peoria$12,1001n/a
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$5,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($236k), not named here.

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About John L Berberich Charitable Trust

How much does John L Berberich Charitable Trust give?
John L Berberich Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $203,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does John L Berberich Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (65%), Education (25%), Public Safety & Disaster (6%).
Who are John L Berberich Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Central Catholic High School ($80k), Fire Foundation of Central Illinois ($20k), Catholic Diocese of Peoria ($12k).
Does John L Berberich Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John L Berberich Charitable Trust 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.
Where is John L Berberich Charitable Trust based?
John L Berberich Charitable Trust 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 8 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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