Texas · Private foundation
The Bersted Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 74
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 70
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations The Bersted Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 | 74 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $1.1M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $750k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $936k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outreach Community Ministries | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| People's Resource Center | $160,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Wayside Cross Ministries | $160,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mutual Ground Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Dupage Pads Inc | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Senior Home Sharing | $155,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Nami of Dupage County Illinois | $140,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $140,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry | $135,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Greater Family Health | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bersted 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: The Dupage Community Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Fox Valley United Way · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Naperville Rotary Charities Inc · Dunham Fund · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Topfer Family Foundation · Ft Cares Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bersted Foundation
- How much does The Bersted Foundation give?
- The Bersted Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $1,163,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 70 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Bersted Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (22%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The Bersted Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Outreach Community Ministries ($175k), People's Resource Center ($160k), Wayside Cross Ministries ($160k).
- Does The Bersted Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bersted Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bersted Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dupage Community Foundation, Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group, Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
- Where is The Bersted Foundation based?
- The Bersted Foundation is based in TX.
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