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.

Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation

Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

111

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$2.7MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$985kEducation$753kPublic Safety & Disaster$480kReligion$119kRecreation & Sports$89kFood & Nutrition$84kOther$0

02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k91 grants · $224k
$10k–50k14 grants · $186k
$50k–250k6 grants · $733k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL	$200,000
MONTIFIORE EINSTEIN	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 132 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

132

136

Total granted

$6.3M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+11%

Still filing today

57%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $477k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

MM
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
2× · 2022–2023 · $600k · revenue +29%
TS
THE SEEING EYE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +134%
CR
CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2025 · $406k · revenue +1%

Funded once

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $200k
SM
SHORT MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE
one grant, 2022 · $100k

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.

New York University

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.

Education

New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Nyu Langone Hospitals

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…

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy of New York City Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

147 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. 147 of the 299 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

143/147

Grantees still filing

93/147

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,974,215Health$1,531,616Education$949,200Arts & Culture$575,655Human Services$540,250International$112,546Religion$100,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sol & Margaret Berger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home