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The Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$56k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Human Services$41kEducation$14kRecreation & Sports$7kArts & Culture$6kPhilanthropy$3kFood & Nutrition$300International$251Religion$200Other$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k11 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$251
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW HEIGHTS$39,506
STAPLES TUITION GRANTS$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF BERKSHIRES$1,800
ARTIS NAPLES$1,600
WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
DIGNITY GROWS$251
NAPLES SENIOR CENTER$100
LENOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND$100
FRIEND OF CHILDREN INC$100
PROJECT KESHER$100
NAPLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$100
GUADALUPE SOCIAL SERVICES$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $951) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 10%DIGNITY GROWS: $251 → 11%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $100 → 10%GUADALUPE SOCIAL SERVICES: $100 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49k · 5 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$49k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+43%

Still filing today

40%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NEW HEIGHTS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $41k
  • AI
    ARTIS-NAPLES INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF BERKSHIRES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k

Funded once

  • SG
    STAPLES GRIDIRON CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • BS
    BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • CF
    CHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sarasota Opera Association Inc

Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.

Arts & Culture
2
Friends of Westport Council On Aging Inc

Provide funding for programs and services provided to the elderly in westport, massachusetts.

—
3
Westport Library Association Inc

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education
4
Friends of Nathaniel Witherell Inc

Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Feeding Ne Florida Support Corporation

The Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…

Food & Nutrition
6
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

—
7
Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services
8
The Chorus of Westerly Inc

The Chorus of Westerly is a community based volunteer organization that provides musical education, presents various musical performances throughout the year and holds an annual children's workshop in choral music

—
9
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
10
Catholic Palliative Care Services Inc

Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…

—
11
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
12
Westminster Canterbury On Chesapeake Bay Foundation

To support the mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Artis-Naples Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HEIGHTS: $40,506 · OtherNEW HEIGHTSSTAPLES GRIDIRON CLUB: $5,500 · OtherSTAPLES GRIDIRON CLUBJEWISH FEDERATION OF BERKSHIRES: $2,980 · OtherDARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2,000 · Other+14 more: $5,600 · Other+14 moreSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 · EducationSTAPLES HIGH SCHO…BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,500 · EducationBARRINGTON STAGE …ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,200 · Arts & CultureBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $600 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INC: $251 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $100 · Human ServicesHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $100 · Food & NutritionMEALS OF HOPE INC: $100 · Food & NutritionNaples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $100 · HealthFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC: $100 · Civil Rights
Other$56,586Education$11,500Arts & Culture$3,200Human Services$951Food & Nutrition$200Health$100Civil Rights$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC: $251 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Kesher: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 54%
  • Friends of Children Inc: 54% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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