· Private foundation
The Berghorst Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC | $20,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $20,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $20,000 |
| ERIKAS LIGHTHOUSE A BEACON OF HOPE FOR ADOLESCENT | $15,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF WINNETKA | $15,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $10,000 |
| NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- OONEGOAL5× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +44%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC7× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +916%
- CMCROSSOVER MISSION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +759%
Funded once
- AHADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -68%
- RCRIVERSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $43k
- GUGET US PPE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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.
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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 105 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 RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN 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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Carwill Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · The McCord Family Foundation Inc · The Ron and Nancy Rosner Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc
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 Berghorst Foundation Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc — 0% 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.