New York · 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 98
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 108
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $686k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 111 | $1.1M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 98 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 108 | $1.5M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $1.1M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $820k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $608k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 80 | $678k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 81 | $669k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montefiore Medical Center | $600,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $420,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $405,616 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $268,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Manhattan Theatre Club Inc | $241,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Mount Sinai Hospital | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Montefiore Einstein Inc | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Arts Center of Cannon County Inc | $108,600 | 8 | 12% |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 146 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation
- How much does Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation give?
- Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $1,137,354 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 108 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Human Services (22%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Montefiore Medical Center ($600k), The Seeing Eye Inc ($420k), Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation ($406k).
- Does Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sol & Margaret Berger 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 Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Select Equity Group Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation based?
- Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation is based in NY.
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