· Private foundation
The Bergstrom Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| WE WILL COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $90,000 |
| THE WOODLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MD ANDERSON | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (NW COLORADO) | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ANKENY DONOR FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| IOWA SPECIALIST HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $813k · revenue +1%- WWWE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +730%
- TCTexas Children's Hospital4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- MAMOTHERS AGAINST CANCERone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +22%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -25%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STEAMBOAT SPRINGSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 32 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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE WILL COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST CANCER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds The John Cooper School ↗
- Who funds KINGWOOD FALLEN HEROES ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bergstrom Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bergstrom Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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