· Private foundation
The Len and Laura Berlik Foundation Inc
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.
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 $10k26 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCCARTER THEATER | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON | $15,000 |
| PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM | $7,460 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $6,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,500 |
| PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAVE ANIMAL SHELTER | $5,000 |
| BOSTON CASA | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES | $3,500 |
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| PRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD | $2,000 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 94% 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
MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +5%
CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +32%
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- SPST PATRICK PARISHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BIBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +7%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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 board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
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…
The board adopted mission statement is: the corporation is operated exclusively for the benefit of nyu langone hospitals and its affiliated organizations. in this capacity, the corporation, may, in order to improve the health and welfare…
It is the mission of the pittsburgh symphony orchestra to engage, enrich, and inspire through unparalleled live musical experiences.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vail Religious Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 15. 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 54 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 MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF TRENTON ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds West Windsor Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Snyder Family Fund · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Express Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Len and Laura Berlik 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.
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- West Windsor Arts Council Inc — 10% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton — 2% 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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