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The Bergman 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| PARKINSON'S DISEASE CENTER PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| CORI'S PLACE | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $15,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL CBI | $10,000 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CAMP JABBERWOCKY | $10,000 |
| WEST CHOP COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| FOUNDING FORWARD UNION LEAGUE SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| THE LANDS AT HILLSIDE FARMS | $5,500 |
| FINE ARTS FIESTA | $5,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NEPA | $5,000 |
| FM KIRBY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- WVWYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +29%
- CPCORI'S PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +357%
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- SPSAINT PETER'S SCHOOL PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2022 · $6k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- WEWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -47%
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 western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The Chestnut Hill Conservancy conserves, preserves, and celebrates history, architecture, and landscapes in Chestnut Hill and the lower Wissahickon watershed through inclusive and proactive community engagement, advocacy, and stewardship.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The rosenbach museum & library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
At philadelphia zoo, our mission is to flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, transformational memories are made, and our passion for conservation saves wildlife (see schedule o).guided by a three-year strategic plan,…
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Street Theatre Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Cori's Place. 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 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 WYOMING VALLEY CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds CORI'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Lands at Hillside Farms ↗
- Who funds WEST CHOP COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS FIESTA INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE UBC 1871 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Historical & Geological Society ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF NEPA ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE ↗
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: The Luzerne Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Maslow Family Foundation Inc · Sordoni Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Nesbitt Family Charitable Foundation · Sordoni Foundation Inc · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · John J & Marjorie M Passan Foundation · Reynolds Edith Bene Tr U W · Benevento and Mayo 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 Bergman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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