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Leo V Berger Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVATH KEREM BEYAVNE INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JUSTIFI | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZALASH | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 26 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $836k · revenue +383%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES7× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +53%- MSMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED2× · 2017–2019 · $175k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- BTBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE IDF RABBINATEone grant, 2018 · $50k
- EMEZER MIZIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -29%
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.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.
To further jewish education in israel
To provide funding for medical and humanitarian projects throughout israel. the organization might make grants to other organizations providing such services, including, but not limited to, evp israel and israel emergency aid fund, israeli…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Everyman Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVATH KEREM B'YAVNEH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEMICY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JUSTIFI INC ↗
- Who funds AHAVAT YISROEL HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds EZER MIZION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF JEWISH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS-INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF AACI INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZALASH INC ↗
- Who funds Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc ↗
- Who funds OORAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JERUSALEM FELLOWSHIPS INC ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Communal Fund · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Leo V Berger Foundation · Herbert Bearman Foundation · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Ojc Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Leo V Berger Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pikesville Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 32% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Art With a Heart Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oorah Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% 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.
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