How much does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation give?

The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $1,219,766 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Environment (5%).

Who are The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.3M), Food Forward Inc ($325k), Nefesh La ($190k).

Does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Philip and Muriel Berman 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 Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation.

Where is The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation based?

The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 61
Grants FY2024: 65
Organizations funded FY2023: 34%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 38 to 65; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $45M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 34% of the organizations The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	57	$1.2M	32%
FY2023	65	$1.3M	34%
FY2022	54	$2.4M	46%
FY2021	45	$1.2M	60%
FY2020	56	$1.2M	66%
FY2019	40	$2.5M	70%
FY2018	38	$1.0M	61%
FY2017	48	$2.6M	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$8.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MEnvironment$680kCivil Rights$617kReligion$495kPhilanthropy$451kEducation$424kCommunity Improvement$316kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$1,322,000	8	1%
Food Forward Inc	$325,000	8	0%
Nefesh La	$190,000	5	7%
Arts for Healing and Justice Network	$165,000	7	1%
Lehigh University	$150,000	4	0%
Clockshop	$75,000	5	7%
Art Division	$70,000	7	2%
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank	$50,000	7	2%
The New Village	$46,000	6	n/a
Ica La	$45,000	2	1%

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All grantees of The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$1,322,000	8	1%
Food Forward Inc	$325,000	8	0%
Nefesh La	$190,000	5	7%
Arts for Healing and Justice Network	$165,000	7	1%
Lehigh University	$150,000	4	0%
Clockshop	$75,000	5	7%
Art Division	$70,000	7	2%
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank	$50,000	7	2%
The New Village	$46,000	6	n/a
Ica La	$45,000	2	1%
Trees for the Future Inc	$42,500	5	0%
Community Partners	$40,500	1	0%
Film2future	$40,000	3	2%
Honor the Earth	$40,000	3	0%
La Voice	$40,000	3	1%
Skirball Cultural Center	$36,962	3	0%
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$33,885	1	0%
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$32,000	1	1%
Creative Acts	$30,000	2	2%
Craft Contemporary	$26,000	6	0%
Los Angeles County Registrar-Recordercounty Clerk	$25,000	1	n/a
The Hadassah Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$20,000	1	0%
The Ryman-Carroll Foundation	$20,000	2	1%
Urban Voices Project	$20,000	2	2%
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery	$19,500	1	0%
American Friends of the Israel Museum	$17,000	1	0%
Camerata Pacifica	$15,000	1	n/a
Children Now	$15,000	3	0%
Los Angeles Lgbt Center	$15,000	1	0%
The Brick	$15,000	1	2%
From The Heart Productions	$15,000	1	0%
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America	$15,000	1	0%
Southern California Public Radio	$15,000	2	0%
Southern California Grantmakers	$15,000	3	0%
Jerusalem Foundation Inc	$12,500	1	0%
New Directions Inc	$12,000	2	0%
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Designs Inc	$10,000	2	0%
The Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles	$10,000	1	0%
The Ecovoice Project	$7,000	1	n/a
Special Angel Inc	$6,000	3	n/a
Fulcrum Arts	$5,000	1	0%
New Village Charter School Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Radar Productions Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Council of American Jewish Museums Inc	$5,000	1	4%
Allentown Art Museum	$5,000	1	0%
Topa Institute Pka Yiddishkayt	$5,000	1	1%
Moving Traditions	$5,000	1	0%
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles	$4,500	1	1%
Ndn Collective Inc	$3,600	3	0%
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive	$3,000	1	n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Fountain Theatre	$2,500	1	0%
Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc	$2,500	1	0%
American Jewish University	$2,500	1	0%
Alma Backyard Farm	$2,500	2	0%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Reach la Inc	$2,000	1	n/a
Projectq	$2,000	1	0%
Talent Maker City	$2,000	1	1%
Bardo La	$1,300	1	1%
Jewish World Watch	$1,000	1	0%
THE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA	$425	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 162 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.

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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 FoundationCA35.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation

How much does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation give?: The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $1,219,766 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Environment (5%).
Who are The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.3M), Food Forward Inc ($325k), Nefesh La ($190k).
Does The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Philip and Muriel Berman 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 Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation.
Where is The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation based?: The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation is based in CA.