How much does The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation give?

The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $198,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Religion (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stephen S Wise Temple ($96k), Temple Akiba of Culver City ($95k), Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service ($85k).

Does The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Annenberg Foundation.

Where is The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation based?

The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation

The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Milton and Ruth Berman Family 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.

$199k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$354kReligion$253kArts & Culture$135kInternational$80kHuman Services$67kAnimals$57kEducation$54kYouth Development$52kOther$0

02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k59 grants · $85k
$10k–50k7 grants · $114k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST JOHN'S HEALTH	$25,000
DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES	$25,000
TOMORROW'S WOMEN	$20,250
ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER	$14,000
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HEALTH	$10,000
STEPHEN S WISE TEMPLE	$10,000
TEMPLE AKIBA	$10,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY	$6,000
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LA	$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION LOS ANGELES	$5,000
KITT CRUSADERS INC	$5,000
CONNECTING TO CURE CROHN'S & COLITIS	$5,000
JVS SOCAL	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 105 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

105 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$1.2M

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+46%

Still filing today

72%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

DH
DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE
6× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +81%
AA
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $79k · revenue +1%
CT
Connecting to Cure Crohn's and Colitis Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +49%

Funded once

TM
THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES COVID RELIEF
one grant, 2020 · $10k
SJ
ST JOHN'S DONATION CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $6k
AF
ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -35%

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.

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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California Walks

Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.

Public Safety & Disaster

The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Kitt Crusaders Inc. 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

105 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. 105 of the 153 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

101/105

Grantees still filing

76/105

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$790,218Health$237,750Arts & Culture$119,944Human Services$53,000Animals$52,500Education$42,000Civil Rights$33,500

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA46.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Green Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Orange County Community 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 Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Milton and Ruth Berman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

26report 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.

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