· Private foundation
The Kurt Berliner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $64,190 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA | $26,400 |
| NEW YORK BOTANTICAL GARDENS | $25,235 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH | $18,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSUEM OF ART | $15,800 |
| BETHESDA CHURCH OUTREACH | $10,345 |
| TOWN OF GREENWICH PARKS AND REC | $10,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSUEM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $2,625 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURE SOCIE | $2,100 |
| LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY | $1,575 |
| MUSUEM OF MODERN ART | $1,350 |
| GREENWICH LAND TRUST | $1,045 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HEALTH FOUN - CANCER | $1,040 |
| AT HOME GREENWICH | $1,030 |
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 (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +40%
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +49%
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc3× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +720%
Funded once
- SSSUSSEX SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +77%
- PMPROVIDENCE MONTANA HEALTH FTDone grant, 2023 · $15k
- MLMISSOULA LIBRARY & SCIENCE CTRone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 125 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 NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PUPPET WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRASS RIVER GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BARBARAS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
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 Resource Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Kurt Berliner 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.
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University 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.
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