Michigan · Private foundation
The Berry 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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $85k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Berry Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 36 | $21k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $19k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $14k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $15k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $19k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Group | $7,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Ozone House Inc | $6,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Corner Health Center | $6,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Faith Lutheran Church Dba Holy Faith Church | $5,282 | 5 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | $3,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Episcopal Relief and Development | $3,700 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Washtenaw County | $3,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Ypsilanti Meals on Wheels | $3,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Michigan | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sos Community Services | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berry Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Duffy Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · DTE Energy Foundation
How this is measured
About The Berry Foundation
- How much does The Berry Foundation give?
- The Berry Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $20,950 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Berry Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Religion (13%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The Berry Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Girls Group ($8k), Ozone House Inc ($7k), Corner Health Center ($6k).
- Does The Berry Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Berry Foundation 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 Berry Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation, The Buhr Foundation.
- Where is The Berry Foundation based?
- The Berry Foundation is based in MI.
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