· Private foundation
Richard N Berman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GERMANTOWN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER | $5,000 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HFHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +125%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +148%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK4× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +136%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -33%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $7k
- LSLIVING STREAMS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.
Ronald c. wornick jewish day school develops students who are socially and academically prepared to meet their full potential as engaged leaders committed to a life steeped in jewish ethics and values.
At community day school, we are committed to raising proud jews, confident leaders, and accomplished learners who value excellence and prioritize community. as educators, administrators, and staff, we hold ourselves to the highest ethical…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
To enrich lives, build community, and inspire jewish journeys.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The kaiserman jewish community center aspires to be the premier multi-generational hub of non-denominational jewish activity. we strive to positively impact the wellness of the mind, body and spirit in an inclusive environment for this and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Compassionate Care Als Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 43 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 HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds CB COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds THE EAGLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE 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 Saramar Charitable Fund · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · The Philadelphia Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard N Berman 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.