· Private foundation
The Philip and Muriel Berman 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $828k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLA (HEART OF LOS ANGELES) | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SALT SPRING ISL COMM SERVICESCOMM GARDEN | $92,053 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| NEWGROUND (VIA COMMUNITY PARTNERS) | $45,000 |
| HADASSAH ACADEMIC COLLEGE - JERUSALEM (VIA PEF ISRAEL) | $40,000 |
| TRANSITION SALT SPRING SOCIETY | $37,699 |
| SALT SPRING SOLUTIONS SOCIETY | $37,566 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NEFESH | $30,000 |
| ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK | $25,000 |
| FOOD FORWARD INC | $25,000 |
| ARTIS - ART ISRAEL CONTEMPORARY | $21,500 |
| PEOPLE'S POTTERY PROJECT (VIA FULCRUM ARTS) | $20,000 |
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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($1.8M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($1.8M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 18 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
- FFFOOD FORWARD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +483%
- NLNEFESH LA5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- HLHUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART COLLECTIONSone grant, 2017 · $400k
- BABERMAN ART MUSEUM URSINUS COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $250k
- SSSALT SPRING ISL COMM SERVICESFOOD SECURITY PROGRAM VIA VANCOUVER FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $103k
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.
Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization and publishing platform that is dedicated to providing inclusive perspectives on contemporary art. Publishing in both print and online, Carla is an…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ryman-Carroll Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The New Village. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 234 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEFESH LA ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CLOCKSHOP ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN AREA ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Perenchio Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Durfee Foundation · The Green Foundation
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 Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% 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.