· Private foundation
The Berman Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH HOME LIFE COMMUNITIES | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $18,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER ATLANTA | $15,000 |
| SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ITREK | $5,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IN THE CITY CAMP | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC | $3,600 |
| THE BREMAN MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| DAVIS ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE5× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +111%- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +172%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -12%
- TGTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +161%
- MJMARCUS JEWISH COM CENTER OF ATLANTAone grant, 2022 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Atlanta jewish academy is a college preparatory, co-educational, preschool-12th grade, independent jewish day school, guided by modern orthodox values and principles. we embody the ideals of community, tradition, individual development and…
The weber school prepares its students for success in college and in life, inspiring them to be knowledgeable, thinking, responsible jewish adults, by weaving together: the pursuit of academic excellence; a commitment to jewish values, the…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The academy for jewish religion serves the needs of the jewish people by ordaining rabbis and cantors and training leaders. we affirm our commitment to a vibrant and inclusive jewish pluralism; to an interweaving of sacred texts, critical…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ALUMNI OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds IN THE CITY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA JEWISH FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH AGING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ITREK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds N E MILES JEWISH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE MOMENTUM ATLANTA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Feminist Womens Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL TALK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE 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.
Open a dossier: Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation · The Engel Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Hookeedoo Foundation Inc · Halpern-Oppenheimer Family Foundation · Henry and Etta Raye Hirsch Heritage Foundation Inc · V' Al Kol Yisrael Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · The Allan & Melanie Nelkin Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc
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 Berman Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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