· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $6,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH | $6,000 |
| DELPHOS ST JOHNS SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATION FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $4,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $4,000 |
| LEAGUE WOMEN VOTERS ORANGE COUNTY | $3,500 |
| EMBRACE OF CELEBRATION | $3,000 |
| UCF FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DELPHOS CHRISTMAS PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MAKE IT ENOUGH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DELPHOS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $83k · revenue +43%
- CFCELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +16%
- SSStarter Studio FL Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
- HLHELIOS LODGE #273one grant, 2021 · $5k
- ICISANTI COUNTY SHERIFF DEPTone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
The museum of contemporary art jacksonville (moca), a cultural institute of the university of north florida, promotes the discovery, knowledge, and advancement of the art, artists, and ideas of our time. moca serves the community and…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 187 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Starter Studio FL Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds Play Inc Arts ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ENZIAN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds OROC ↗
- Who funds Limbitless Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE OF CELEBRATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISANTI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Help Now of Osceola Inc: 48% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc: 24% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
- Bok Tower Gardens Inc: 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
- Enzian Theater Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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