New York · Private foundation
The Berg Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $236k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Berg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 25 | $236k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $282k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $260k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.2M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $131k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $3.5M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $422k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $3,650,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center | $1,037,550 | 4 | 6% |
| Mid-Island y Jewish Community Center In | $501,500 | 2 | 4% |
| Katahdin Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Boston University Hillel Inc | $62,600 | 7 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $61,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $57,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $41,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berg Family 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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Berg Family Foundation
- How much does The Berg Family Foundation give?
- The Berg Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $235,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Berg Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Human Services (26%), Religion (3%).
- Who are The Berg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($3.7M), Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center ($1.0M), Mid-Island y Jewish Community Center In ($502k).
- Does The Berg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Berg Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Berg Family Foundation based?
- The Berg Family Foundation is based in NY.
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