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The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$92k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
47
Grants FY2024
70
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
37 to 70
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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 arriving47$92k34%
FY202370$185k43%
FY202246$88k37%
FY202166$113k45%
FY202043$83k42%
FY201937$83k27%
FY201842$180k43%
FY201746$127kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$260kEducation$237kPhilanthropy$138kCommunity Improvement$126kHealth$83kHuman Services$29kScience & Tech$29kYouth Development$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
UT
VA
MD
NM
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Communications Inc$82,50061%
Celebration Foundation Inc$69,93584%
Starter Studio FL Inc$47,500310%
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc$35,00050%
Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc$28,00030%
Orlando Science Centerinc$23,00040%
Donorschooseorg$21,10060%
Orlando Museum of Art Inc$17,00030%
Delphos Running Club$13,0006n/a
A Gift for Teaching Inc$13,00050%
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All grantees of The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Communications Inc$82,50061%
Celebration Foundation Inc$69,93584%
Starter Studio FL Inc$47,500310%
University of Central Florida Foundation Inc$35,00050%
Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc$28,00030%
Orlando Science Centerinc$23,00040%
Donorschooseorg$21,10060%
Orlando Museum of Art Inc$17,00030%
Delphos Running Club$13,0006n/a
A Gift for Teaching Inc$13,00050%
Play Inc Arts$12,00038%
League of Women Voters of Orange County Inc$10,50034%
Smithsonian Institution$10,00020%
Enzian Theater Inc$9,40030%
Make It Enough Foundation Inc$9,0007n/a
Oroc$9,00062%
Limbitless Solutions Inc$9,00021%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida Inc$8,00070%
Embrace of Celebration Inc$7,75031%
Isanti County Historical Society$6,00052%
North Star Family Advocacy Center$5,00012%
United Arts of Central Florida Inc$5,00010%
Mike Gallmeier Foundation$5,0005n/a
Vector Space$5,00031%
Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra Inc$4,00030%
Delphos Canal Commission$3,50042%
Hope Community Center Inc$3,00020%
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc$3,00030%
AdventHealth Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Florida Historical Society Inc$2,00020%
Chair The Love Inc$2,00012%
Garden Theatre Inc$2,00010%
Help Now of Osceola Inc$2,00010%
Shepherd's Hope Inc$2,00010%
Timucua Arts Foundation$2,00010%
Froelich Foundation$1,50013%
Celebration Community Chorus Inc$1,5001n/a
Hope Partnership Inc D/B/A Community Hope Center Inc$1,30020%
The University of Findlay$1,20020%
United Against Poverty Inc$1,10020%
Butler University$1,10020%
Ohio Northern University$1,10010%
Delphian Social Club$1,0001n/a
University of Florida$1,0001n/a
Central Florida Community Arts Inc$1,00010%
Ernie Hall Aviation Museum Inc$1,00011%
University of Northwestern Ohio$1,00010%
Rockville Bike Hub$1,0001n/a
Learn Build Fly Inc$1,00010%
Miami University$1,0001n/a
Museum of Arts and Sciences Inc$1,00010%
Rollins College$1,0001n/a
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Lakeland Aero Club Inc$1,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,00010%
Give Kids the World Inc$1,00010%
Putnam County Historical Society$1,00014%
Recreational Aviation Foundation$1,0001n/a
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$75020%
The George Washington University$65040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$60020%
Trustees of Purdue University$6001n/a
El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc$50010%
Central Church Inc$5001n/a
Celebration Booster Club Inc$5001n/a
Clarion Kindness Project$5001n/a
Brigham Young University$5001n/a
Bok Tower Gardens Inc$50020%
Jacksonville University$50010%
Kingdom Collective Inc$5001n/a
Osceola County Historical Society$50010%
Soaring Society of America Inc$30010%
University of Dayton$25010%
Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue$25010%
Orlando Health Foundation Inc$20010%
Port Townsend Aero Museum$10010%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$10010%
United States Association for UNHCR$10010%
Duke University$10010%
Heartbeat of Lima Inc$10010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 104 recipients with no EIN on record ($429k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Communications Inc: $82,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCelebration Foundation Inc: $69,935 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetStarter Studio FL Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetUniversity of Central Florida Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Shakespeare Theater Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOrlando Science Centerinc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $21,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Museum of Art Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetA Gift for Teaching Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlay Inc Arts: $12,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetLeague of Women Voters of Orange County Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnzian Theater Inc: $9,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOroc: $9,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetLimbitless Solutions Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmbrace of Celebration Inc: $7,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetIsanti County Historical Society: $6,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNorth Star Family Advocacy Center: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Arts of Central Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVector Space: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFlorida Symphony Youth Orchestra Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDelphos Canal Commission: $3,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHope Community Center Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor House of Central Florida Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Historical Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChair The Love Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGarden Theatre Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelp Now of Osceola Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherd's Hope Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTimucua Arts Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFroelich Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHope Partnership Inc D/B/A Community Hope Center Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Findlay: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Against Poverty Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetButler University: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Northern University: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Florida Community Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetErnie Hall Aviation Museum Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern Ohio: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLearn Build Fly Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMuseum of Arts and Sciences Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakeland Aero Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPutnam County Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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 65.

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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.

Universal Orlando Foundation IncFL28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Mary Palmer Family Foundation Inc · Central Florida Foundation · United Arts of Central Florida Inc · Orlando Health Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · The Lee Foundation · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Bond Foundation Inc · The Allen Family Foundation Inc Fka the Bob Allen Family 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.

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About The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust give?
The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust reported 47 grants totaling $92,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (23%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Communications Inc ($83k), Celebration Foundation Inc ($70k), Starter Studio FL Inc ($48k).
Does The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust 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 David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Universal Orlando Foundation Inc, Mary Palmer Family Foundation Inc, Central Florida Foundation.
Where is The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust based?
The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust is based in FL.

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 187 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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