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Berlin Family Foundation

Niwot, CO · EIN 22-2783295. Reported 28 grants totalling $3,024 to 28 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$100median grant
$3,024granted, 2024
28organizations funded
$332,676assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Berlin Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $100. Half of everything it gave fell between $100 and $100; the smallest was $50 and the largest $500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
28 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Jewish CommitteeMilwaukee, WI$500112024
City HarvestBrooklyn, NY$200112024
Colorado Public RadioDenver, CO$120112024
Als AssociationSaratoga Springs, NY$100112024
Adirondack Mountain ClubQueensbury, NY$100112024
American Lung AssociationPhiladelphia, PA$100112024
Birds of Prey FoundationBroomfield, CO$100112024
Charity NavigatorHarlan, IA$100112024
Colorado Bear CoalitionBoulder, CO$100112024
Compassion & ChoicesEtna, NH$100112024
Emergency Family Assistance Association EfaaBoulder, CO$100112024
Habitat for Humanity FlatironsLafayette, CO$100112024
Humane Society of Boulder ValleyBoulder, CO$100112024
Map InternationalWashington, DC$100112024
March of DimesTopeka, KS$100112024
National Multiple Sclerosis SocietyWashington, DC$100112024
National Parks Conservation AssociationBoone, IA$100112024
Natural Resources Defense CouncilMerrifield, VA$100112024
Oxfam AmericaWashington, DC$100112024
The Raptor TrustMillington, NJ$100112024
The Seeing EyeWashington, DC$100112024
World Food Program USAWashington, DC$100112024
United Synagogue of Conservative JudiasmAllenwood, NJ$54112024
Bnai Brith InternationalMilwaukee, WI$50112024
Center for People With DisabilitiesBoulder, CO$50112024
Colorado HumanitiesGreenwood Village, CO$50112024
Longmont Humane SocietyLongmont, CO$50112024
Longmont Meals on WheelsLongmont, CO$50112024
Plus 28 grants to individuals totalling $27,000 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
5 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Environment
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant
Civil Rights
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 27% of this one's giving went to organizations in Colorado. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Colorado
$820
Wisconsin
$550
District of Columbia
$500
New York
$400
Iowa
$200
New Jersey
$154
Pennsylvania
$100
New Hampshire
$100

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsColorado Gives Foundation9 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $100. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Colorado.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Berlin Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 9800 Monarch Rd, Niwot, CO, 80504. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 22-2783295 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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