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The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$313k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2024
46
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
46 to 78
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$7.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving42$313k19%
FY202346$321k22%
FY202260$700k38%
FY202161$532k7%
FY202078$674kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHealth$663kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kYouth Development$15kCommunity Improvement$8kRecreation & Sports$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
TN
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heart Association Inc$180,00030%
American Cancer Society Inc$180,00030%
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$130,30130%
The University of Georgia Foundation$80,00010%
Breakthrough T1d$20,00030%
Lawrence Hall$15,00030%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$10,00030%
Reach for Excellence Inc$7,50030%
International Association for Relationship Research$7,50023%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
Epilepsy Foundation of America$5,00010%
Special Olympics Illinois$5,00010%
A Special Wish Foundation$2,50014%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $130,301 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Georgia Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Hall: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReach for Excellence Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Association for Relationship Research: $7,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Illinois: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Special Wish Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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About The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation

How much does The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation give?
The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $313,334 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 78 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Health (26%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
Who are The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Heart Association Inc ($180k), American Cancer Society Inc ($180k), Georgia State University Foundation Inc ($130k).
Does The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation based?
The Berner Charitable and Scholarship Foundation is based in IL.

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 123 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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