· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN-UM CHARITABLE GIFT OFFICE | $1,300 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $1,300 |
| OZONE HOUSE | $1,100 |
| CORNER HEALTH CENTER | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND | $750 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $500 |
| YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS | $500 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $500 |
| UMRC - PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BLUE RIDGE PUBLIC RADIO | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 9 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, 86% 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
GIRLS GROUP6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +94%- CHCORNER HEALTH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +25%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OCONE CALL FOR ALLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +27%
- UPUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEALone grant, 2023 · $1k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kl Training Solutions. 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 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 83 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 GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ONE CALL FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
- Who funds UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Blues Foundation 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: 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
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 Berry Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.