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The Bersted Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.9MHealth$1.7MHousing & Shelter$868kYouth Development$660kFood & Nutrition$610kReligion$522kCrime & Legal$380kEducation$276kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.1M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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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.

area typical 9%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 6%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $20k → 8%PIONEER CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICE: $20k → 6%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $20k → 8%METROPOLITAN FAMILIY SERVICES: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $25k → 14%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $20k → 8%METROPOLITAN FAMILIY SERVICES: $20k → 14%FOX VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACTION: $20k → 8%NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY & YOUTH: $30k → 7%TURNING POINT INC: $20k → 6%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $20k → 14%SAFE PASSAGES: $20k → 13%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%NEIGHBORHOOD FOOD PANTRIES: $20k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 8%OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 7%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $22k → 8%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 8%MARKLUND CHILDREN'S HOME: $20k → 8%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $20k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE INC: $45k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE INC: $25k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE INC: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%FAMILY SHELTER SERVICE INC: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%NAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $20k → 7%DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL: $25k → 7%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $25k → 7%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $25k → 7%LITTLE FRIENDS INC: $20k → 7%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $20k → 7%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 94 repeat orgs$865k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
37

Total granted

$6.5M
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+6%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • OC
    OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +71%
  • PR
    PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +81%
  • MG
    MUTUAL GROUND INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • YS
    YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2019 · $34k
  • FH
    Family Health Partnership Clinicgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
  • FV
    FOX VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one 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.

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
Depaul Community Services Inc

To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses

Health
2
Center for Family Services

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…

Human Services
3
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
4
Options and Advocacy for Mchenry County Inc

Empowering individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through advocacy and the coordination of service options

Human Services
5
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
7
Family Counseling Services of No Il

To foster stronger communities by providing individuals with accessible, professional counseling and mental health care that empowers them to thrive

Human Services
8
Crosspoint

Crosspoint human services provides quality human services in a competent and reliable fashion to individuals, families and the community.

Health
9
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
11
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

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.

Health
12
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Friends Inc; the most unlike its peers is Simply Destinee. 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/106
Grantees still filing
73/106
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $160,000 · OtherWAYSIDE CROSS MINISTRIES: $160,000 · OtherSUICIDE PREVENTION: $147,500 · Other+90 more: $3,201,175 · Other+90 moreOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $175,000 · Human ServicesOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRI…MUTUAL GROUND INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesMUTUAL GROUND INCNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $140,000 · Human ServicesNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLIN…Neighborhood Food Pantries: $113,800 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Food PantriesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $112,181 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOMELITTLE FRIENDS INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE FRIENDS INCFamily Shelter Service Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesFamily Shelter Service IncRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action: $110,000 · Human ServicesRiverwoods Christian Center…NORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $70,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $67,750 · Human ServicesAlmost Home Kids: $65,000 · Human Services+16 more: $450,000 · Human Services+16 moreDUPAGE PADS INC: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterDUPAGE PA…Senior Home Sharing: $155,000 · Housing & ShelterSenior Ho…BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE CO…NAPERVILLE ELDERLY HOMES INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterNAPERVILL…Home of the Sparrow Inc: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of t…Fellowship Housing Corporation: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterALIVE CENTER NFP: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $92,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $84,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH OUTLOOK: $30,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $125,000 · HealthDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $65,000 · HealthRush Copley Foundation: $60,000 · HealthTRI CITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP: $40,000 · HealthSUICIDE PREVENTION SERVICES INC: $30,000 · HealthFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $25,000 · HealthNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $140,000 · Food & NutritionAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $135,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMARENGO AREA OUTREACH ENTERPRISES: $16,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCASA KANE COUNTY: $120,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $105,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,668,675Human Services$1,748,731Housing & Shelter$590,000Youth Development$386,000Health$375,000Food & Nutrition$321,000Civil Rights$240,000

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 budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $160,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMUTUAL GROUND INC: $155,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDUPAGE PADS INC: $155,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSenior Home Sharing: $155,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetNAMI OF DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS: $140,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $135,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER FAMILY HEALTH: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE CENTER NFP: $120,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetDONKA INCORPORATED: $120,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetCASA KANE COUNTY: $120,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $115,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNeighborhood Food Pantries: $113,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $112,181 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLITTLE FRIENDS INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Shelter Service Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRiverwoods Christian Center dba Fox Valley Christian Action: $110,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetDUPAGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $105,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $92,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana: $84,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $81,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetElyssas Mission NFP: $80,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS FOX VALLEY: $70,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetNORTHEAST DUPAGE FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetIndependence Health & Therapy: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFOX VALLEY HANDS OF HOPE INC: $68,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHOPE'S FRONT DOOR: $67,750 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetDUPAGE HEALTH COALITION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAlmost Home Kids: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNAPERVILLE ELDERLY HOMES INC: $60,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetHome of the Sparrow Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRush Copley Foundation: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LITERACY CONNECTION: $57,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBARRINGTON YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Focus: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $45,000 over 2y, 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 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.

The Dupage Community FoundationIL84.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 154 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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