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The Berlin Family Foundation

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.

$6k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$971kEducation$857kHousing & Shelter$615kHealth$562kArts & Culture$470kYouth Development$250kEnvironment$65kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUITS FOR SENIORS INC$5,000
THE BENJAMIN SCHOOL INC$1,400
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $972k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARITY CARS: $3k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $5k → 15%HARVEST DRIVE: $5k → 15%HARVEST DRIVE INC: $3k → 15%PLACE OF HOPE: $225k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $100k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $50k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $15k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $15k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $10k → 11%FORT FREEDOM INC: $10k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $10k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $10k → 11%FORT FREEDOM INC: $5k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $1k → 11%THE BOBBY RESCINITI HEALING HEARTS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 15 repeat orgs$561k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
21

Total granted

$3.3M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+4%

Still filing today

67%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $936k · revenue +102%
  • TB
    THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $647k · revenue +78%
  • UY
    Urban Youth Impact Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2017 · $210k
  • MA
    MUSEUMS AT MITCHEL
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -54%
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
South Florida Baptist Hospital Inc

To improve the health of all we serve through community-owned health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. AS a part of BayCare Health System, South Florida Baptist Hospital is the best place to work,…

Health
2
South Shore University Hospital

South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
3
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
4
Baptist Medical Center of the Beaches Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health
5
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
6
North Shore University Hospital

North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
7
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
8
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
9
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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10
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
11
Bethesda Health Comprehensive Imaging Services Inc

As a part of the Baptist Health network, THE MISSION OF BETHESDA HEALTH COMPREHENSIVE IMAGING SERVICES, INC. WAS to improve the health and well-being of individuals and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life in the communities we…

Health
12
Baptist Health South Florida Inc

The mission of baptist health is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a faith-based organization guided by the spirit of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Susan B Anthony Center 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

24 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. 24 of the 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PALM BCH: $405,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PALM BCHCRADLE OF AVIATIONMUSEUMS: $300,000 · OtherCRADLE OF AVIATIONMUSEUMSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $210,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYBOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FND: $100,000 · OtherBOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FNDBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $60,000 · OtherCommunity Greening Corp: $65,000 · OtherBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $66,000 · OtherPLACE OF HOPE INC: $936,036 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC+4 more: $35,500 · Human ServicesTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $646,893 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCH…HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITYUrban Youth Impact Inc: $250,000 · ReligionJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $170,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe 15 For Life Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 · HealthBethesda Hospital Inc: $20,000 · HealthBLUEWATER BABES CHARITABLE TRUST: $10,000 · Health
Other$1,256,000Human Services$971,536Education$846,893Religion$250,000Philanthropy$195,000Arts & Culture$170,000Health$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $936,036 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $646,893 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUrban Youth Impact Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUMS AT MITCHEL: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Greening Corp: $65,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBethesda Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT FREEDOM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHARVEST DRIVE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUITS FOR SENIORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Berlin Family Charita…United Way of Palm Be…Enterprise Holdings F…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Berlin Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · 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 Berlin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berlin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Community Greening Corp: 5% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bethesda Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to The Berlin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Berlin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 37 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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