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Rbsl Bergman Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$186k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF HOPE$250,000
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY GREATER LOS ANGELES$25,000
CURTIS SCHOOL$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY: $500 → 10%MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%BEIT T'SHUVAH: $1k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $1k → 17%MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCH: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCH: $10k → 14%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $10k → 14%BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $5k → 14%BRENTWOOD CC EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 14%BRENTWOOD CC EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5k → 14%CURTIS SCHOOL: $5k → 14%JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $3k → 14%JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $1k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5k → 14%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $250k → 14%VILLAGE SCHOOL: $1k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%CAUCUS FOR PRODUCERS WRITERS & DIRECTORS: $1k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $31k → 14%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 14%JVS SO CAL: $1k → 14%WOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS-SINAI: $500 → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $26k → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION: $26k → 14%LA COUNTY ART MUSEUM: $12k → 14%LA COUNTY ART MUSEUM: $10k → 14%JVS SO CAL: $4k → 14%LA COUNTY ART MUSEUM: $500 → 14%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$707k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$707k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+31%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationAnimalsInternationalRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $206k · revenue +55%
  • BS
    BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • GL
    GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • ST
    SINAI TEMPLE
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +117%
  • BT
    Beit T'Shuvahgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +74%
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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
Yavneh Day School

Yavneh day school provides strong academic excellence in general and judaic studies within a strong community where each child is celebrated and challenged.

Education
6
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
7
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
8
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
11
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
12
Town School for Boys

At town school, learning is prized, love of school is essential and boyhood is celebrated. town values being a diverse community that nurtures integrity, sensitivity and respect in its boys and prepares them to become productive and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE: $300,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPETHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $83,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCH: $35,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR COLLEGE MATCHLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY GREATER LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · OtherLA COUNTY ART MUSEUM: $22,760 · Other+12 more: $40,000 · Other+12 moreCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $206,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · AnimalsTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyJVS SOCAL: $4,500 · EmploymentMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$505,760Health$207,000Education$15,000Animals$12,000Philanthropy$5,000Employment$4,500Community Improvement$2,000

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 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 budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJVS SOCAL: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rbsl Bergman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rbsl Bergman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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