· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF THE HEARTLAND | $50,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MISSION | $30,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| JESUIT ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHURCH | $12,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
| CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PROJECT HARMONY | $10,000 |
| HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE | $10,000 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE | $2,564 |
| PGA REACH NEBRASKA | $1,995 |
| OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +44% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HFHEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +53%
TREVOR PROJECT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +189%- CSCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- HMHEART MINISTRY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -17%
- FTFeed The Massgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +860%
- CKCOMPLETELY KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +183%
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.
End hunger together.
The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.
Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.
One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
Engaging the community to end hunger
Heartland community health network exists to support and strengthen its federally qualified health center members through collaboration, information-sharing and integration of administrative, fiscal and clinical operations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Family Service and the most unlike its peers is The Benjamin H Ryan Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 46 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 Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GESU HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BENJAMIN H RYAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMAHA COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Feed The Mass ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CASSEL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: 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
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 Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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