· Private foundation
The Jordan and Deanna Berman Family Charitable Foundation
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 $10k19 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $36,000 |
| THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| AIM ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| WOODMERE MUSEUM | $29,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $28,978 |
| MAACM | $10,000 |
| UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL | $7,200 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $6,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT | $5,000 |
| THE HOPE FOUNDATION | $4,800 |
| ROTATION GIVES | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $1,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
52 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +149%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK8× · 2017–2024 · $321k · revenue +156%
- NRNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $188k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- BIBELIEVE IN STUDENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $165k · revenue +198% · 45% of their budget
- TATHE ALS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PMPEN MEDICINE ADVANCED CARE PAVILION BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 124 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 HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKWELL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 1761 ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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: Steven and Ilene Berman Family Foundation Inc · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Fred and Bryna Berman Family Found Inc Berman Frederick B Ttee · Vesta Fund · The Saramar Charitable Fund · The Cigna Group Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Little Tower Foundation · The Windmill Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jordan and Deanna Berman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jordan and Deanna Berman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Young Israel of Margate: 3% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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