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Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation

Name: Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

131
grants reported: $1.6M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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1 grant matching “brun” · $12,500

$12,500
State Theatre Regional Art Ctr New Bruns · New Brunswick, NJ · 2025
General operating

Top recipients

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art3 grants · $65,000
The Discovery Orchestra3 grants · $60,000
New York Youth Symphony3 grants · $60,000
Saratoga Performing Arts Center3 grants · $57,500
Binghamton Philharmonic4 grants · $47,500
Newark Boys Chorus School2 grants · $40,000
American Symphony Orchestra3 grants · $40,000
The Ascap Foundation2 grants · $40,000
Whin Music Community Charter School2 grants · $40,000
Newark School of the Arts2 grants · $40,000

Giving over time

$415,000

2022

$410,000

2023

$350,000

2024

$430,000

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 131 grants.

$25,000
American Theatre Wing · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$25,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$20,000
New Jersey Ballet · Florham Park, NJ · 2025
General operating
$20,000
New York Youth Symphony · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$20,000
Saratoga Performing Arts Center · Saratoga Spgs, NY · 2025
General operating
$20,000
The Ascap Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$20,000
The Discovery Orchestra · Summit, NJ · 2025
General operating
$20,000
New York Youth Symphony · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$20,000
Saratoga Performing Arts Center · Saratoga Spgs, NY · 2024
General operating
$20,000
The Ascap Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$20,000
The Discovery Orchestra · Summit, NJ · 2024
General operating
$20,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$20,000
Ascap Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$20,000
Newark Boys Chorus School · Newark, NJ · 2023
General operating
$20,000
Newark School of the Arts · Newark, NJ · 2023
Scholarships and chamber
$20,000
The Discovery Orchestra · Summit, NJ · 2023
General operating
$20,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Whin Music Community Charter School · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$20,000
American Symphony Orchestra · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$20,000
Manhattan School of Music · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$20,000
New York Youth Symphony · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$20,000
Newark Boys Chorus School · Newark, NJ · 2022
General operating
$20,000
Newark School of the Arts · Newark, NJ · 2022
Scholarships and chamber
$20,000
Whin Music Community Charter School · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$17,500
Saratoga Performing Arts Center · Saratoga Springs, NY · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Yarnwire · Ridgewood, NY · 2025
General operating
$15,000
Capital Harmony Works · Trenton, NJ · 2024
General operating
$15,000
New York City Ballet · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$15,000
Newark School of the Arts · Newark, NJ · 2024
General operating
$15,000
Arts Horizons · Englewood, NJ · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Bayatlantic Symphony · Atlantic City, NJ · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Friends of the Mozartina Musical Arts Co · Tarrytown, NY · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Perkins Center for the Arts · Moorestown, NJ · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Society of the Third Street Music School · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$15,000
The Little Orchestra Society Orpheon · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$15,000
Bayatlantic Symphony · Atlantic City, NJ · 2022
General operating
$15,000
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Mose · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$15,000
Montclair State University · Montclair, NJ · 2022
General purpose
$15,000
Perkins Center for the Arts · Moorestown, NJ · 2022
General operating
$15,000
Rosies Theater Kids · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$15,000
Society of the Third Street Music School · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$15,000
The Little Orchestra Society Orpheon · New York, NY · 2022
General operating
$15,000
Trenton Music Makers · Trenton, NJ · 2022
General operating
$14,500
The Little Orchestra Society- Orpheon in · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$12,500
Binghamton Philharmonic · Binghamton, NY · 2025
General operating
$12,500
Council On Arts and Humanities Staten Is · Staten Island, NY · 2025
General operating
$12,500
Saint Peters University · Jersey City, NJ · 2025
General operating
$12,500
State Theatre Regional Art Ctr New Bruns · New Brunswick, NJ · 2025
General operating
$12,500
Binghamton Philharmonic · Binghamton, NY · 2024
General operating
$12,500
Binghamton Philharmonic · Binghamton, NY · 2023
General operating
$12,000
Luzerne Music Center · Lake Luzerne, NY · 2023
General operating
$12,000
Saint Peters University · Jersey City, NJ · 2022
General operating
$10,000
American Symphony Orchestra · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Artsmart · Philadelphia, PA · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Asbury Park Music Foundation · Asbury Park, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Concert Artists Guild · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Count Basie Theatre · Red Bank, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Education Through Music · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Ctr Lucy Moses · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Friends Mozartina Musical Arts Tarrytown · Tarrytown, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Leonia Chamber Musicians Society · Leonia, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Lincoln Center for the Perfor Arts · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Manhattan School of Music · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra · Summit, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra · Newark, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Opportunity Music Project Foundation in · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Orchestrating Dreams · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Philharmonic Symphony Society New York · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Rosies Theater Kids · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Save the Music Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Symphony in C New Jersey Nonprofit Org · Collingswood, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
The Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Musi · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
The Noel Pointer Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
General operating
$10,000
William Paterson University · Wayne, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Young Audiences of New Jersey · Princeton, NJ · 2025
General operating
$10,000
Alexander and Buono Worldwide · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Artsmart · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Bloomingdale School of Music · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Cornelia Connelly Center for Education · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Count Basie Theatre · Red Bank, NJ · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Daniels Music Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Education Through Music · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Music Before 1800 · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra · Summit, NJ · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Opportunity Music Project Foundation in · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Opus 118 Harlem School of Music · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Orchestrating Dreams · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra · New York, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Richmond County Orchestra · Staten Island, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
South Orange Peforming Arts Center · South Orange, NJ · 2024
General operating
$10,000
The Friends of the Mozartina Musical Art · Tarrytown, NY · 2024
General operating
$10,000
Alexander and Buono Worldwide · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$10,000
American Symphony Orchestra · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Asbury Park Music Foundation · Asbury Park, NJ · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Branch Brook Park Alliance · Morristown, NJ · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Mose · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Institute of Music for Children · Elizabeth, NJ · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Manhattan School of Music · New York, NY · 2023
General operating
$10,000
Montclair State University Foundation in · Montclair, NJ · 2023
General purpose

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.