· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CASSEL INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike and Michelle Berlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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