Georgia · 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.
- $248k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Berman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 20 | $218k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $210k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $237k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $165k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $197k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Home Life Communities Inc | $504,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Central Conference of American Rabbis | $100,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Jewish Committee | $76,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Sinai Inc | $32,240 | 4 | n/a |
| American Alumni of Glasgow University | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Alfred and Adele Davis Academy Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Grady Health Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Berman Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Berman Charitable Trust
- How much does The Berman Charitable Trust give?
- The Berman Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $247,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Berman Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Religion (14%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Berman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ($505k), Central Conference of American Rabbis ($100k), American Jewish Committee ($76k).
- Does The Berman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berman Charitable Trust 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 Berman Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation, The Engel Foundation Inc, The Selig Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Berman Charitable Trust based?
- The Berman Charitable Trust is based in GA.
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