· Private foundation
The Fred Bergfors and Margaret Sandberg Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k19 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST EULALIA CHURCH | $12,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $7,500 |
| ROSIES PLACE | $7,500 |
| WARRIOR CANNINE CONNECTION | $7,500 |
| LUKES WINGS | $7,500 |
| MY BROTHERS TABLE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| CHILDRENS NATIONAL | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS INN NIH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SOME-SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $5,000 |
| MIDDLESEX PARTNERS FOR YOUTH | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–26, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC6× · 2021–2026 · $40k · revenue +162%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +44%- DPDC Peers5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +659% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +74%- SJST JUDE HOSPITALone grant, 2025 · $8k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LUKE'S WINGS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DC Peers ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATCH US FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Fred Bergfors and Margaret Sandberg Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.