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The J & E Berkley Foundation at a glance

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The J & E Berkley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$256k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$322kHousing & Shelter$185kHuman Services$180kArts & Culture$161kFood & Nutrition$128kEducation$128kCrime & Legal$109kAnimals$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $181k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$15,000
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE AR$10,000
AUGUSTA HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE$10,000
ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGR$10,000
GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC$10,000
THE HAVEN$10,000
RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$7,500
THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE$7,500
OPEN DOORS INC$7,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,500
CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY$7,500
CITY OF PROMISE$7,500
THE FRONT PORCH$6,000
INNISFREE INC$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BACKPACKS OF LOVE INC: $5k → 6%ROCKFISH VALLEY COMMUNITY: $4k → 13%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $10k → 8%READY KIDS: $10k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $10k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $7k → 8%READY KIDS: $5k → 8%READY KIDS: $5k → 8%READY KIDS: $5k → 8%READY KIDS: $5k → 8%READY KIDS: $5k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $5k → 8%READY KIDS: $3k → 8%READY KIDS: $1k → 8%GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $1k → 8%CITY OF PROMISE: $5k → 8%JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA: $500 → 8%SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA: $500 → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
SD
PA
NJ
VA
AR
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 83 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
69

Total granted

$1.4M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

70%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +51%
  • PC
    PIEDMONT CASA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +114%
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +50%
  • TM
    THE MUNICIPAL BAND OF CHARLOTTESVILLE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +1%
  • TI
    Transformation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -82%
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
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
5
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
6
Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter
7
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
8
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

—
9
Casa of Central Virginia Inc

Casa of central va, inc. recruits, trains and supports volunteer advocates for abused and neglected children involved in juvenile court proceedings in the 24th judicial district and educates the community about the needs of these children.

Civil Rights
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
11
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.

Crime & Legal
12
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Region Ten Community Services Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Hss Foundation. 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

109 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. 109 of the 162 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/109
Grantees still filing
84/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $77,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCPIEDMONT CASA INC: $67,750 · OtherPIEDMONT CASA INCTHE FRONT PORCH: $54,000 · OtherTHE FRONT PORCHCARTER G WOODSON INSTITUTE: $40,500 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $37,500 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $57,500 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC+104 more: $564,486 · Other+104 moreTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $59,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S IN…CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $35,500 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILL…Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia: $33,750 · HealthLouisa County …RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $21,500 · HealthRECLAIMED HOPE…RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP: $21,400 · HealthRX DRUG ACCESS…ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $19,500 · HealthON OUR OWN CHA…+4 more: $17,500 · Health+4 moreALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $90,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN INC: $33,500 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $2,250 · Housing & ShelterREADYKIDS INC: $38,500 · Human ServicesGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $33,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF PROMISE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOORS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Human ServicesBACKPACKS OF LOVE INC: $4,500 · Human Services+2 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $42,000 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $21,500 · AnimalsTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $11,500 · AnimalsALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE WHITE PIG ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,000 · AnimalsROCKINGHAM-HARRISONBURG SPCA: $5,000 · AnimalsGREEN DOGS UNLEASHED INC: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $28,500 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $16,250 · Arts & CultureCharlottesville Ballet: $12,000 · Arts & CultureVICTORY HALL OPERA: $9,500 · Arts & CultureLIVE ARTS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSECOND STREET GALLERY INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY: $4,500 · Arts & CultureLIGHT HOUSE STUDIO INC: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureIVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $24,500 · EnvironmentWILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED: $19,000 · EnvironmentLIVING EARTH SCHOOL: $7,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $5,500 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $4,000 · EnvironmentRIVANNA TRAILS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $3,500 · Environment
Other$898,736Health$208,150Housing & Shelter$126,250Human Services$124,500Animals$101,000Arts & Culture$93,250Environment$92,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $90,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $77,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT CASA INC: $67,750 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE: $59,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $42,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetREADYKIDS INC: $38,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC: $35,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLouisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia: $33,750 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $33,500 over 6y, 64% of budgetGEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC: $33,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCITY OF PROMISE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $28,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetIVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetRIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $24,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE: $21,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetANIMAL CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $21,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetRX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP: $21,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED: $19,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $17,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC: $17,250 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $16,500 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $16,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Services Housing Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC: $14,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharlottesville Ballet: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPUTERS4KIDS: $10,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY HALL OPERA: $9,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW: $8,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBARRETT EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOLIDAY LAKE 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIVE ARTS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING EARTH SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND STREET GALLERY INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE COMMUNITY BIKES: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 ALBEMARLE HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Louisa County Resource Council of Louisa Virginia ↗
  • Who funds THE HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds IVY CREEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVANNA CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds RECLAIMED HOPE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL CARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds RX DRUG ACCESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD VIRGINIA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL VIRGINIA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Services Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds Charlottesville Ballet ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Perry Foundation IncCaplin FoundationThe Oak Hill FundThe Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…Sentara HealthManning Family Founda…United Way of Greater…The Genan FoundationS&P Global Foundation…Dominion Energy Chari…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA137.6× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · Caplin Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Sentara Health · Manning Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Genan Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 J & E Berkley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J & E Berkley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 162 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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