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The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$159k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,750
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$943k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving13$159k46%
FY202311$122k45%
FY202211$173k27%
FY20216$61k67%
FY20207$48k29%
FY20199$89k33%
FY201814$186k50%
FY201711$120kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$315kArts & Culture$207kEducation$118kPublic Benefit$100kPhilanthropy$85kReligion$45kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MS
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDebbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCitizen Education Fund Inc: $99,900 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLos Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Diabetes Foundation: $40,650 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRyan Gordy Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetAva's Heart: $38,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts: $34,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSaint John's Cancer Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Legends Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSongwriters' Hall of Fame Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStep Up Women's Network: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHearts of Gold Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMorehouse College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCulture Club of South Bay: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetPublic Counsel: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRace to Erase Ms: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Women's Freedom Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNextstep Fitness Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heart Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAcademy Museum Foundation: $1,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFaith in Practice: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe DIVA Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTj Martell Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 23.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

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How do I get to The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice?

Find your warmest path to The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice

How much does The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice give?
The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice reported 13 grants totaling $159,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (12%).
Who are The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Debbie Allen Dance Inc Debbie Allen Dance Academy ($100k), Citizen Education Fund Inc ($100k), Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund Inc ($85k).
Does The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice 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 Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The David Geffen Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice based?
The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice is based in CA.

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 41 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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