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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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$23kAnimals$13kHealth$9kInternational$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
10
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HANLEY FOUNDATION$500
HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA$500
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION$500
NSU DR KIRAN C PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE$500
ONEFAMILY FUND$500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF FLORIDA'S GULF COAST$478
BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT$300
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$250
HUMANE SOCIETY OF TAMPA BAY$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARC OF DAUPHIN COUNTY: $18 → 12%MIND BODY AWARENESS PROJECT: $100 → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $500 → 10%MENORAH MANOR: $5k → 12%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS OF AMERICA: $1k → 8%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $52 → 10%MENORAH MANOR: $3k → 12%MENORAH MANOR: $2k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%MENORAH MANOR: $1k → 12%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES: $500 → 13%MENORAH MANOR: $1k → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $500 → 12%HOPE VILLAGES OF AMERICA: $250 → 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 34 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
52

Total granted

$58k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

91%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MM
    Menorah Manor Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
  • DT
    DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +79%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    5× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -51%
  • ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +28%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
2
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
3
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

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…

Animals
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
Ric OBarrys Dolphin Project

For Education, Safety, Protection, Recovery, and Prevention From Cruelty for All Cetaceans Especially Dolphins

Animals
6
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

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.

Animals
7
American Humane Association

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…

Animals
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

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…

Animals
9
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
10
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
11
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
12
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beagle Freedom Project; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $4,200 · OtherDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTIONGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 · OtherGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY…Individual grant recipient: $1,768 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYAD ELIEZER: $1,060 · OtherALL HANDS & HEARTS HURRICANE RELIEF: $1,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI: $1,000 · OtherBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $1,650 · OtherBOCA HELPING HANDS INCFeeding America: $1,100 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $1,150 · Other+47 more: $11,882 · Other+47 moreMenorah Manor Inc: $12,180 · Human ServicesMenorah Manor IncHope Villages of America Inc: $1,750 · Human ServicesHope Villages of America…METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES …FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC+4 more: $1,170 · Human Services+4 moreBIOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5,700 · AnimalsBIOLOGISTS WI…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $832 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN …Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $708 · AnimalsClearwater Ma…BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT: $418 · AnimalsSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $350 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $325 · Animals+5 more: $1,300 · Animals+5 moreUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $2,180 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FR…HANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,800 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUN…Soi Dog Foundation USA: $500 · PhilanthropySoi Dog Fou…Jewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties FL Inc: $478 · PhilanthropyJewish Fede…DIRECT RELIEF: $3,500 · InternationalDIRECT REL…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…HIAS INC: $715 · InternationalHIAS INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 · InternationalJEWISH NAT…ONE FAMILY FUND: $500 · InternationalONE FAMILY…+2 more: $200 · InternationalNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,950 · HealthNATIONAL …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE C…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 · HealthEPILEPSY …MENORAH MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $786 · HealthMENORAH M…FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $710 · HealthFRIENDS O…MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $500 · HealthMULTIDISC…THE HERREN PROJECT: $250 · Health+2 more: $200 · HealthFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $2,910 · Arts & CultureRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $400 · Arts & Culture
Other$27,310Human Services$17,600Animals$9,633Philanthropy$7,958International$7,415Health$6,896Arts & Culture$3,310

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMenorah Manor Inc: $12,180 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLOGISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5,700 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $4,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $2,910 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $2,180 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $1,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHope Villages of America Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $832 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMENORAH MANOR FOUNDATION INC: $786 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $715 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $708 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $552 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll for One Pet Rescue Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH OUT WORLDWIDE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Pinellas and Pasco Counties FL Inc: $478 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT: $418 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH ECKERD HALL INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Place: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA BAY TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Top Jewish Foundation…Pinellas Community Fo…Community Foundation …Walter and Edith Loeb…Oxman Charitable Fund…Maurice a Rothman & T…The Manny and Ruthy C…Publix Super Markets …Rays Baseball Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Duke Energy FoundationThe Jerry Ornsmidas F…
Top Jewish Foundation IncFL23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Berman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Berman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Berman Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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