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The Berlind Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$268k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$210kAnimals$123kRecreation & Sports$42kFood & Nutrition$22kMembership Benefit$15kHousing & Shelter$12kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$4,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$945k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND$55,000
MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM$36,300
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$19,428
NEW YORK CITY CENTER$15,000
VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES)$11,190
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BRITISH MUSEUM$10,000
CULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE$7,500
TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$7,500
SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$7,000
THE FRICK COLLECTION$6,966
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$5,000
THE HISPANIC MUSEUM & LIBRARY$5,000
TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VISUAL ARTS LIBRARY: $10k → 9%HERITAGE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER: $35k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $42k → 17%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $16k → 11%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $36k → 17%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $21k → 17%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $14k → 17%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $12k → 17%MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM: $12k → 17%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE: $25k → 17%TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%PERRY STREET THEATRE: $20k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $15k → 17%564 PARK AVE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $11k → 17%TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%WNET: $11k → 17%564 PARK AVE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $10k → 17%ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 17%NEW YORK CITY CENTER: $10k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $19k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $18k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (15 DONEES): $15k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES): $13k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (12 DONEES): $13k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES): $12k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES): $11k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES): $11k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER: $20k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (12 DONEES): $11k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20k → 17%VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES): $11k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $20k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $19k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER: $12k → 17%CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 22% of The Berlind Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Berlind Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 41 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
24

Total granted

$2.0M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $624k · revenue +135%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    6× · 2017–2023 · $164k · revenue +5%
  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Library
    8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +27%
  • CR
    CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +27%
  • PS
    PERRY STREET THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
6
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
9
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
10
Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc

Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.

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11
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Visual Art Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr12%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr21%14%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr12%64%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
10%
2,445/23,682

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.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $623,616 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $115,350 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $96,289 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $78,759 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CENTER INCTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $65,000 · Arts & CultureTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $44,088 · Arts & Culture+17 more — $136,186 · Arts & Culture+17 moreVARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (11 DONEES) — $57,365 · OtherVARIOUS - 1500 OR LES…AMERICAN FRIEDS OF BRITISH MUSEUM — $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIEDS OF BR…LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE — $34,665 · OtherLINCOLN CENTER THEATR…CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $25,000 · OtherCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B…VARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (12 DONEES) — $23,650 · OtherVARIOUS - 1500 OR LES…PERRY STREET THEATRE — $20,000 · OtherTHIRTEEN - WNET — $19,000 · OtherVARIOUS - 1500 OR LESS (15 DONEES) — $15,396 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $17,500 · Other+28 more — $175,061 · Other+28 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University — $163,815 · EducationThe Trustees of Pr…The Pierpont Morgan Library — $146,340 · EducationThe Pierpont Morga…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $38,500 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL …+1 more — $10,000 · EducationTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $64,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $37,500 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,200 · AnimalsTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $7,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · InternationalCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $13,500 · Recreation & SportsCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $21,882 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,214,288Other$422,637Education$358,655Animals$112,200International$49,500Recreation & Sports$39,000Food & Nutrition$21,882

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $623,616 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $163,815 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $146,340 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $115,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $96,289 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $78,759 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $64,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $44,088 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $38,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $37,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) — $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWNET — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $21,882 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE INC — $17,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $12,235 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $11,966 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $10,966 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $10,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC — $5,350 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC — $4,690 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PRESENTS INC — $3,900 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $2,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION — $2,170 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DOMAINE DE CHANTILLY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
  • Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CSC REPERTORY LTD D/B/A CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds VISUAL ART LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN AGORA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Jm Kaplan Fund IncThe New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Ag FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundRenaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ag Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Berlind 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Berlind Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Berlind 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines