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The Berg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$3.7MHuman Services$1.6MReligion$183kInternational$168kArts & Culture$151kHealth$132kEducation$91kCivil Rights$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$115,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION$20,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC$16,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC$15,000
SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$5,000
KEHILLAT ISRAEL RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION OF PACIFIC PALISADES$5,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
COMMONPOINT QUEENS$5,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$2,500
MET NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY$2,500
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND INC$2,500
ISLAND HARVEST LTD$2,500
LONG ISLAND CARES$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISLAND HARVEST LTD: $3k → 7%COMMONPOINT QUEENS: $5k → 13%JAFCO- JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS INC: $2k → 13%LONG ISLAND CARES: $3k → 7%COMMONPOINT QUEENS: $5k → 13%JAFCO- JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS INC: $2k → 13%JAFCO- JEWISH ADOPTION AND FAMILY CARE OPTIONS INC: $2k → 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $250 → 14%MID ISLAND Y JCC: $500k → 6%MID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1.0M → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY: $10k → 6%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 6%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 27 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$5.8M
$322k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+3%

Still filing today

89%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +27%
  • SJ
    SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +92%
  • MY
    MID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN
    2× · 2020–2023 · $502k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • KF
    KATAHDIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -93%
  • RS
    RECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Beth Israel Medical Center

Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…

Health
4
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
5
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
6
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
7
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
8
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
9
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
10
Jewish Communal Fund

To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.

Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center in. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …School Parent OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr13%65%35–55yr16%28%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,720

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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $3,650,250 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YOR…+1 more — $1,800 · PhilanthropySID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $1,037,550 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY…MID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN — $501,500 · Human ServicesMID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY…+6 more — $51,400 · Human ServicesKATAHDIN FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherRECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE — $100,000 · OtherBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC — $62,600 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $57,500 · OtherKEHILLAT ISRAEL RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION OF PACIFIC PALISADES — $19,930 · Other+13 more — $63,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $61,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $55,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER — $17,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $23,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $14,500 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $7,500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Civil RightsJewish Community Relations Council of New York — $4,300 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $25,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF MARQUEZ — $7,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · Education
Philanthropy$3,652,050Human Services$1,590,450Other$453,030International$183,000Health$111,500Civil Rights$64,300Education$33,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $3,650,250 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $1,037,550 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMID-ISLAND Y JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN — $501,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetKATAHDIN FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC — $62,600 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $61,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $57,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONPOINT NY INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZARA'S CENTER — $17,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MARQUEZ — $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc — $5,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER OF FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Relations Council of New York — $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER FUND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Berg Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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