Illinois · Private foundation
The Berkman 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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $568k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations The Berkman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $97k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $95k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $61k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $55k | 83% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $27,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $23,858 | 3 | n/a |
| Boston University Hillel Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago Dance Health Fund | $6,780 | 5 | 1% |
| Outreach with Lacrosse Schools | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $3,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Evans Scholars Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| A Better Chicago | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berkman Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Sam I Am Foundation · Jarvis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Berkman Family Foundation
- How much does The Berkman Family Foundation give?
- The Berkman Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $97,585 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Berkman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Education (27%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Berkman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($27k), Am Shalom ($24k), Boston University Hillel Inc ($10k).
- Does The Berkman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berkman Family 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 The Berkman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Sam I Am Foundation, Jarvis Foundation.
- Where is The Berkman Family Foundation based?
- The Berkman Family Foundation is based in IL.
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