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Lorraine a Berger Family Foundation at a glance

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Lorraine a Berger Family 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$17kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kInternational$8kEducation$6kCrime & Legal$6kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$549k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGIONAL FOOD BANK$4,000
NEIGHBORS LINK$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$3,000
TRI-BORO AMBULANCE CORPS$3,000
IMMIGRANT DEFENDER LAW CENTER$3,000
CHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY$2,000
VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY YOUTH PROGRAM$2,000
NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION$1,500
WEST SIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER$1,500
EL BUEN SAMARITANO$1,000
CASA MARIANELLA$1,000
THE LILITH FUND$1,000
KAPLAN JCC ON THE PALISADES$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEIGHBORS LINK: $4k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $4k → 9%NEIGHBORS LINK: $3k → 9%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 6 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
22

Total granted

$35k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • NL
    NEIGHBORS LINK CORP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +70%
  • TA
    TRI-BORO AMBULANCE CORPS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k

Funded once

  • SP
    STONY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • LF
    LAUREN'S FIRST AND GOAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.

1
Children's Rights Inc

Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…

Civil Rights
2
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
3
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
6
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
7
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
8
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
9
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc

Ijc's mission is to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice.

Crime & Legal
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
12
The Advocates for Human Rights

To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; the most unlike its peers is Clarkstown Family Resource Ctr Part. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
15/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRI-BORO AMBULANCE CORPS: $9,000 · OtherTRI-BORO AMBULANCE CORPSIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTONY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5,625 · OtherSTONY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLAUREN'S FIRST AND GOAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherLAUREN'S FIRST AND GOAL FOUNDATIONSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,500 · OtherSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INCVILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY YOUTH PROGRAM: $2,000 · OtherWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $3,500 · OtherWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFESARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 · OtherCHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Other+10 more: $11,000 · Other+10 moreNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $11,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS LINK CORPGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTIO…THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT …Save The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalWATERORG: $1,000 · InternationalADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $750 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $750 · InternationalFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $2,250 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 · EnvironmentImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $3,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,000 · Crime & LegalJustice For All Immigrants: $750 · Crime & LegalCLARKSTOWN FAMILY RESOURCE CTR PART: $3,375 · EducationPROJECT ROUSSEAU INC: $1,000 · EducationREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$46,625Human Services$18,000International$6,500Environment$5,750Crime & Legal$4,750Education$4,375Food & Nutrition$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARKSTOWN FAMILY RESOURCE CTR PART: $3,375 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHOOD CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ROUSSEAU INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustice For All Immigrants: $750 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.

Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Lorraine a Berger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lorraine a Berger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Saddle River Day School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 38 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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By state
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