· Private foundation
The Berning Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELDER HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| BLOC MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| SPARC HOPE | $3,500 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY | $3,500 |
| ST LAWRENCE CHURCH | $3,500 |
| LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $3,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VISITATION | $2,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ROGER BACON HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST HENRY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN KY | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBLOC MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +84%
- MCMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +52%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER WEST4× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- SWST WILLIAMS CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
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.
The mission of Praying Through ministries is to deliver gospel hope to families navigating dark seasons of pregnancy, childhood illness, hospitalization, and/or child loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and child loss of any age)…
The mission of Loved Twice is to clothe newborns in need with quality reused baby clothing for the first year of life. For us, even one baby going without proper clothing is one too many. We believe the community starts with serving our…
Allyfe pregnancy clinic exists to offer truth, hope, and love to every woman and family facing an unexpected pregnancy. founded in 1985, we have built four decades of integrity as a christ-centered center of excellence - providing…
Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…
Uniquely knitted is a non-profit organization on a mission to bring affordable mental health care to the infertility community. we help to heal the traumas of infertility while ending the isolation that goes with struggling to conceive…
Embraced International is dedicated to surrounding vulnerable children and families with support solutions and opportunities to help them find their individual success. The specific objectives and purpose of this organization shall be to…
Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our…
Unpack is a two-tiered approach to help women unpack the pain of their pasts as well as help them on the road to residency where they can unpack their things and make a home for themselves and their children. we work with single women…
Safe haven baby boxes mission is to prevent illegal abandonment of newborns by raising awareness, offering a 24-hour hotline for mothers in crisis and offering a last resort option for women who want to maintain complete anonymity.
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
To strengthen Utah families by providing essential items, education, and resources to break the cycle of poverty and create a brighter, more secure future for children and their families.
Foreknown Ministries (FM) will operate programs that empower mothers and fathers to find healing after pregnancy or infant loss. In the US, approximately 1 in 100 pregnancies end in stillbirth (after 20 weeks). The experience is often…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER WEST ↗
- Who funds UNIFIED FOR UGANDA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUBREY ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Maas Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Cise Sgo · Edelweiss Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Berning Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berning Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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