· Private foundation
The Stanley L and Phyllis Berger 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of The Stanley L and Phyllis Berger Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Metropolitan Detroit, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Stanley L and Phyllis Berger Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $147k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATON OF METRO DETROIT | $96,250 |
| CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY | $22,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| YAD EZRA | $5,000 |
| LACASA | $2,500 |
| JEWISH SENIOR LIFE | $1,800 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $1,800 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $600 |
| YOUTH TANK DETROIT | $250 |
| HAROLD E EISENBERG FOUNDATION | $250 |
| YOUTH TANK DETROIT | $250 |
| 2023 ADOPT-A-FAMILY - JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $113 |
| JARC | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +10%- YEYAD EZRA6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +42%
- DGDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- ACA&F CHALLENGE FUNDSERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $8k
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROITone grant, 2017 · $4k
- SFSERIOUS FUND CHILDREN'S NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 101 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ravitz Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · United Jewish Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stanley L and Phyllis Berger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanley L and Phyllis Berger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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