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William B Bergen Foundation Inc at a glance

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William B Bergen Foundation Inc

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.

$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$21kHuman Services$14kInternational$10kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$6,146
Median grant
4
States reached
$185k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samaritans Purse$10,056
Tunnel to Towers$6,146
Wounded Warrior Project$5,028
St Jude's Childrens Hospital$5,028
02The need
03

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 (FY21–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Christian Appalachian Project: $2k → 26%Talbot Hospice Foundation: $5k → 10%Talbot Hospice Foundation: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 6 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$41k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +24%
  • TH
    TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +25%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UO
    UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +142%
  • NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -54%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +22%
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.

1
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
3
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
5
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…

Human Services
6
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

—
7
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

—
9
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
11
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
12
Shock Trauma Associates Pa

Under the medical sevice plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical instruction…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Jude's Childrens Hospital: $10,028 · OtherSt Jude's Childrens HospitalThe Salvation Army: $7,000 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $4,000 · OtherST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INCSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,500 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBenedictine School: $2,000 · OtherBenedictine SchoolChrist Church Food Pantry: $2,000 · OtherChrist Church Food Pantry+2 more: $1,200 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,028 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT I…TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION…CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PRO…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,056 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PUR…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,176 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · EducationNATIONAL GUARD …UEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CAROLINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 · Arts & CultureACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$31,728Human Services$16,028Religion$10,056Education$9,676Philanthropy$4,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,056 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,028 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,176 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUEMPOWER OF MARYLAND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL GUARD YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAROLINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 William B Bergen Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William B Bergen Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Academy Art Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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