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The Berman Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI | $1,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $1,000 |
| FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $680 |
| MENORAH MANOR FOUNDATION | $536 |
| FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH | $530 |
| DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION | $500 |
| NSU DR KIRAN C PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE | $500 |
| ONEFAMILY FUND | $500 |
| HANLEY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA | $500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF FLORIDA'S GULF COAST | $478 |
| BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT | $300 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $250 |
| AMERICAN BOARD OF PHYSICIAN SPECIALTIES | $250 |
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 (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MMMenorah Manor Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
- DTDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +79%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -51%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +28%- FSFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +5%
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…
For Education, Safety, Protection, Recovery, and Prevention From Cruelty for All Cetaceans Especially Dolphins
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beagle Freedom Project and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 98 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 Menorah Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds BIOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MENORAH MANOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds All for One Pet Rescue 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: Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Walter and Edith Loebenberg Family Foundation Inc · Oxman Charitable Fund Trust · Maurice a Rothman & Thelma P Rothman Family Foundation Inc · The Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Jerry Ornsmidas 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Menorah Manor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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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