· Private foundation
Sol & Margaret Berger 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k91 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $733k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTIFIORE EINSTEIN | $200,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $100,000 |
| RESCUE SQUAD OF CANNON COUNTY | $100,000 |
| DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $82,625 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| ABCMERRICATS | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| HARLEM ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB | $12,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | $10,210 |
| UJA | $10,200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,100 |
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 (FY18–25, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
132 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 31 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k 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
- MMMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +29%
- TSTHE SEEING EYE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +134%
- CRCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $406k · revenue +1%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $200k
- SMSHORT MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIREone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soumyas Journey Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
147 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. 147 of the 299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Montefiore Einstein Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CENTER OF CANNON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUIS SEGRETO 26 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The New York Community Trust · American Express Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Abe & Sylvia Ginsburg Foundation · Amica Companies 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 Sol & Margaret Berger 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.
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% 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.