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Rbsl Bergman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$330k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$186k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Rbsl Bergman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EmploymentInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$330k50%
FY20239$143k11%
FY202211$119k45%
FY202113$117k54%
FY20207$36kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$534kEducation$74kPhilanthropy$62kArts & Culture$34kReligion$27kAnimals$12kEmployment$5kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Rbsl Bergman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$206,00050%
Brentwood School$15,00020%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association$12,00040%
The John Thomas Dye School$6,00040%
Jvs Socal$4,50020%
Village School Inc$3,00030%
American Friends of Magen David Adom$1,00010%
Beit T'Shuvah$1,00010%
The Caucus for Producers Writers & Directors$1,00014%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$1,00010%
StandUp for Kids$1,00010%
Yosemite Foundation$50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($492k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rbsl Bergman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $206,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrentwood School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Zoological Association: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Thomas Dye School: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJvs Socal: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVillage School Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Caucus for Producers Writers & Directors: $1,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYosemite Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Rbsl Bergman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rbsl Bergman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Rbsl Bergman Foundation

How much does Rbsl Bergman Foundation give?
Rbsl Bergman Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $330,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Rbsl Bergman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (71%), Education (10%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Rbsl Bergman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($206k), Brentwood School ($15k), Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association ($12k).
Does Rbsl Bergman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rbsl Bergman 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 Rbsl Bergman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Rbsl Bergman Foundation based?
Rbsl Bergman Foundation is based in CA.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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