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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 FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$22kReligion$14kHousing & Shelter$12kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$9kYouth Development$8kEducation$6kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRLS GROUP$1,300
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN-UM CHARITABLE GIFT OFFICE$1,300
OZONE HOUSE$1,100
CORNER HEALTH CENTER$1,100
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN CHAPTER$1,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT$1,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND$750
SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES$500
SHARE OUR STRENGTH - NO KID HUNGRY$500
THE BLUES FOUNDATION$500
MICHIGAN RADIO$500
YMCA OF WNC$500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 9%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 9%EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $200 → 17%WORKING WHEELS: $250 → 12%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $1k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 39 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
32

Total granted

$90k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+15%

Still filing today

59%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • GIRLS GROUP
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +94%
  • CH
    CORNER HEALTH CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • OC
    ONE CALL FOR ALLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +27%
  • WF
    WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -14%
  • AI
    AFS-USA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -27%
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
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
2
American Water Works Association

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.

Public Benefit
3
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
4
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
6
American Gas Association

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…

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7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
9
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
World Resources Institute

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 83 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNER HEALTH CENTER: $6,100 · OtherCORNER HEALTH CENTERFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH DBA HOLY FAITH CHURCH: $5,282 · OtherFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH DBA HOLY FAITH CHURCHROLLING BAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherROLLING BAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN-UM CHARITABLE GIFT OFFICE: $3,600 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN-UM CHARITABLE GIFT OFFICEIndividual grant recipient: $3,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $3,300 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTYYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $3,100 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $2,800 · OtherFOOD GATHERERS: $2,800 · Other+42 more: $27,465 · Other+42 moreOZONE HOUSE INC: $6,800 · Human ServicesOZONE HOUSE INCEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3,700 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF…SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000 · Human ServicesSOS COMMUNITY SE…WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMIL…HOPE THE MISSION: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOPE THE MISSION+3 more: $700 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $3,750 · HealthPLANNED PAR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $3,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…American Heart Association Inc: $1,450 · HealthAmerican He…UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthUMRC-PORTER…LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthLEUKEMIA RE…ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthGIRLS GROUP: $7,700 · Youth Development+1 more: $250 · Youth DevelopmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,100 · InternationalAFS-USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INC: $500 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $250 · InternationalFAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $2,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $300 · EducationPEO Foundation: $250 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $250 · EducationTRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200 · EducationONE CALL FOR ALL: $1,750 · PhilanthropyTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$61,797Human Services$16,200Health$10,900Youth Development$7,950International$4,350Education$4,100Philanthropy$3,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRLS GROUP: $7,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC: $6,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORNER HEALTH CENTER: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $3,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS: $3,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEARNING INSTITUTE: $2,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetONE CALL FOR ALL: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,650 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE THE MISSION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn Arbor Symphony Orchestra Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN N CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SERVICES OF WISCONSIN INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEO Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the WNC Nature Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetW4H ASHEVILLE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPMATE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKL TRAINING SOLUTIONS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 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.

  • 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • 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 WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee 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.

Ann Arbor Area Commun…Harry a and Margaret …The Buhr FoundationUnited Way for Southe…The Community Foundat…Duffy FoundationSpeckhard-Knight Char…James a and Faith Kni…The Martin Family Fou…Kiwanis Club of Ann A…Dogwood Health TrustDTE Energy Foundation
Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI27.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Berry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 83 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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