Nebraska · Private foundation
Mike and Michelle Berlin 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.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $782k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $205k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $170k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $175k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $147k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $176k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $75k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $102k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $6k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $225,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Siena Francis House | $155,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartland Family Service | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Jesuit Academy | $60,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Trevor Project Inc | $45,070 | 6 | 0% |
| Child Saving Institute Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gesu Housing Inc | $23,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Project Harmony | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Clifton B & Anne S Batchelder Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · The Gfh & Sah Foundation · Harley and Beth Schrager Foundation · Kenneth (Kim) & Karen Hawkins Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation
- How much does Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation give?
- Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $204,826 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (35%), Philanthropy (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House ($225k), Food Bank for the Heartland ($205k), Siena Francis House ($155k).
- Does Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation 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 Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation.
- Where is Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation based?
- Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation is based in NE.
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