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Berghoefboyle 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.

$98k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of Berghoefboyle Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Berghoefboyle Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $98k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

20
’17
16
’18
13
’19
10
’20
10
’21
9
’22
5
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Total assets, FY2023
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Berghoefboyle Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$84k13%
FY202212$233k25%
FY202116$382k38%
FY202013$416k8%
FY201918$218k11%
FY201828$1.6M46%
FY201733$841kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHuman Services$591kPhilanthropy$451kEnvironment$364kPublic Safety & Disaster$360kYouth Development$307kArts & Culture$234kHealth$206kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
AR
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($815k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berghoefboyle Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarnabas Center Inc: $540,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $360,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Florida Land Trust Inc: $220,550 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $91,806 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $75,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Horticultural Society: $72,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Georgia Foundation: $72,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids: $52,800 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSavannah Music Festivalinc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Netherland-America Foundation Inc: $33,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJacksonville Zoological Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmelia Island Chamber Music Festival: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScripps College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Deputy Sheriffs' Association Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Lexington Foundation: $7,600 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalvin University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Lights: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMerit School of Music: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBbb Wise Giving Alliance: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance Foundation Inc: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Association Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY11.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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How do I get to Berghoefboyle Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berghoefboyle Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Berghoefboyle Foundation

How much does Berghoefboyle Foundation give?
Berghoefboyle Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $97,600 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Berghoefboyle Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (30%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are Berghoefboyle Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Holy Trinity High School ($1.1M), Barnabas Center Inc ($540k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($360k).
Does Berghoefboyle Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Berghoefboyle 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 Berghoefboyle Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Berghoefboyle Foundation based?
Berghoefboyle Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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