· Private foundation
The Bersted Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DUPAGE COUNTY | $30,000 |
| SUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES | $30,000 |
| DUPAGE PADS | $30,000 |
| SENIOR HOME SHARING | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| WAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF DEKALB COUNTY | $24,500 |
| RAY GRAHAM ASSN FOR DISABLED PEOPLE | $21,600 |
| ALIVE CENTER | $20,000 |
| LITTLE FRIENDS INC | $20,000 |
| NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
94 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 22 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +71%
- PRPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +81%
- MGMUTUAL GROUND INC7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- YSYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOISone grant, 2019 · $34k
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinicgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
- FVFOX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +24%
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.
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.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Administering an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible in order to stabilize their traditional or home of…
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive
Crosspoint human services provides quality human services in a competent and reliable fashion to individuals, families and the community.
We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 154 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Home Sharing ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FAMILY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ALIVE CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds DONKA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CASA KANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Food Pantries ↗
- Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Riverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds Elyssas Mission NFP ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds ROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS FOX VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Independence Health & Therapy ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bersted Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bersted Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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