New York · Private foundation
The Berlind 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.
- $438k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,880
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $173,372
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $998k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Berlind Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 42 | $433k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $268k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $297k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $267k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $233k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $320k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $235k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $285k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $796,988 | 9 | 1% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $192,190 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $173,880 | 7 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $115,350 | 7 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $96,289 | 8 | 0% |
| New York City Center Inc | $87,888 | 9 | 0% |
| The Animal Medical Center | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Two East Sixty-Second Street Foundation | $70,000 | 9 | 1% |
| 564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation | $60,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Humane Society of New York | $44,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($332k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berlind 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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Berlind Foundation
- How much does The Berlind Foundation give?
- The Berlind Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $438,405 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Berlind Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (74%), Education (9%), Animals (6%).
- Who are The Berlind Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: World Monuments Fund Inc ($797k), The Pierpont Morgan Library ($192k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($174k).
- Does The Berlind Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berlind 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 Berlind Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc, The New York Community Trust, The Bessemer Giving Fund.
- Where is The Berlind Foundation based?
- The Berlind Foundation is based in NY.
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