· Private foundation
The 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROOF ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
| SAHUARITA FOOD BANK & COMM RESRC | $2,002 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK GREEN VALLEY | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA BEACH NEPTUNE FESTIVAL | $2,000 |
| GREEN VALLEY SHERRIFF'S AUXILIARY | $2,000 |
| NORFOLK ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL LEAGUE OF GREEN VALLEY | $1,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS | $1,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON | $500 |
| ST MARYS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +0%- VHVOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +11%
- SMST MARYS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- SCSANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
- SCSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FDTNone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The science museum of virginia foundation, inc. serves as the private fundraising partner of the science museum of virginia, a state institution that was founded in 1970 by both the virginia academy of science and the virginia general…
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
The sanibel & captiva islands association of realtors is the trusted voice and advocate for real estate. real estate professionals adding value to our community.
To promote knowledge of ,respect for and responsible use of plants, especially the plants of st. croix and the eastern caribbean.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
Save the bay protects, restores, and improves the ecological health of the narragansett bay region, including its watershed and adjacent coastal waters, through an ecosystem-based approach to environmental action; defends the right of the…
To connect people to the marine environment, inspiring a more sustainable future. we aspire to be a driver in conservation, education, tourism, and sustainability, leading the charge to save wildlife and their ecosystems.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
To promote the prosperity of our members and preserve the quality of life in our community.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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
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 FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER HAMPTON ROADS ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Animal League of Green Valley ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PROOF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND GROUP FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN DEED INC ↗
- Who funds GVR Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds LEONARDTOWN VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEONARDTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ANN'S CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ST MARYS 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: Moccasin Lake Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable 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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.