· Private foundation
The Berghorst Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $125,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $51,800 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GA CHAPTER | $40,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC | $15,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC | $15,000 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| ERIKAS LIGHTHOUSE A BEACON OF HOPE FOR ADOLESCENT | $5,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BRAVEN INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| MYASTHENIA GRAVIS FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 7 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +916%
- OONEGOAL5× · 2017–2023 · $146k · revenue +44%
- CMCROSSOVER MISSION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +759%
Funded once
- AHADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -68%
- RCRIVERSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $43k
- 1B10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
How this is measured
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds ADVANCIUM HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEAR NORTH MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENEVA SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 BRAINS NEURO AI INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Berghorst Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berghorst Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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