Funding search · EIN 236270983 · Los Angeles, CA

The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation

Name: The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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.

200
grants reported: $5.0M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

The Huntington9 grants · $888,500
Hola (Heart of Los Angeles)4 grants · $810,000
Salt Spring Island Foundation (Via Vancouver Foundation)3 grants · $260,711
Salt Spring Isl Comm Servicescomm Garden (Via Vancouver Fndtn)2 grants · $187,278
Nefesh3 grants · $140,000
Food Forward3 grants · $125,000
(the) Huntington2 grants · $119,500
Irac (Via Fimjp)3 grants · $108,000
Newground (Via Community Partners)3 grants · $105,000
Hadassah Academic College - Jerusalem (Via Pef Israel)3 grants · $105,000

Giving over time

$2.5M

2022

$1.3M

2023

$1.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 200 grants.

$640,500
The Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2022
Asian art work
$600,000
Hola (Heart of Los Angeles) · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Visual art dept. Endowment
$183,237
Salt Spring Island Foundation (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2022
Mt. Maxwell land acquisition
$100,000
(the) Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2024
Acqisitions and exhibitions
$100,000
Hola (Heart of Los Angeles) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Visual art dept. Endowment
$100,000
Hola (Heart of Los Angeles) · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Visual art dept. Endowment
$100,000
The Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2023
Bipoc
$100,000
The Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2022
Bipoc
$95,801
Salt Spring Isl Comm Servicescomm Garden (Via Vancouver Fndtn) · 2022
Harvest fod program
$92,053
Salt Spring Isl Comm Servicescomm Garden · 2024
Harvest fod program payments #3 of 4
$91,477
Salt Spring Isl Comm Servicescomm Garden (Via Vancouver Fndtn) · 2023
Harvest food program payments
$59,542
Steeqye Learning Society (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2023
Land purchase
$57,684
Salt Spring Island Foundation (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2023
Indigenous priorities fund
$55,000
Nefesh · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$55,000
Nefesh · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Lehigh University · Bethlehem, PA · 2024
Luag conservation endowment
$50,000
Food Forward · North Hollywood, CA · 2023
General operating support
$50,000
Lehigh Universtiy · Bethlehem, PA · 2023
Luag sculpture preservation
$50,000
Food Forward · North Hollywood, CA · 2022
General operating support
$45,000
Newground (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$40,000
Hadassah Academic College - Jerusalem (Via Pef Israel) · New York, NY · 2024
Renovation of optometry teaching clinic #2 of 3
$40,000
Hadassah Academic College - Jerusalem (Via Pef Israel) · New York, NY · 2023
Renovation of optometry school
$39,579
Salt Spring Solutions Institute for New Economics (Via Vancouver Foundation · 2022
Climate action project
$39,579
Transition Salt Spring Society (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2022
General operating support
$38,613
Transition Salt Spring Society (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2023
General operating support
$38,040
Salt Spring Solutionsinstitute for New Economics (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2023
Climate action project
$37,699
Transition Salt Spring Society · 2024
General operating support
$37,566
Salt Spring Solutions Society · 2024
General operating support
$36,000
Irac (Via Fimjp) · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
General operating support
$36,000
Irac (Via Fimjp) · Beverly Hills, CA · 2023
General operating support
$36,000
Irac (Via Fimjp) · Beverly Hills, CA · 2022
General operating support
$30,000
Liberty Hill · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$30,000
Nefesh · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$30,000
Liberty Hill · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$30,000
Newground (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$30,000
Liberty Hill · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$30,000
Newground (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$25,000
Arts for Healing and Justice Network · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$25,000
Food Forward · North Hollywood, CA · 2024
General operating support
$25,000
Arts for Healing and Justice Network · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc (Via Wilshire Blvd Temple) · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$25,000
Arts for Healing and Justice Network · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$25,000
Hadassah Academic College - Jerusalem (Via Pef Israel) · New York, NY · 2022
Presidents discretionary fund
$25,000
Karsh Family Social Service Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$25,000
La County Dept of Arts and Culture · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Arts education collective
$25,000
Skirball Cultural Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Fabric of a nation exhition
$21,500
Artis - Art Israel Contemporary · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
(the) Civics Center (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
Instit of Contemporary Art Laica La · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Agency of assets
$20,000
La Voice · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
People'S Pottery Project (Via Fulcrum Arts) · Pasadena, CA · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
Queer Mikvah (Via Fractured Atlas) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies (Via UCLA Foundation) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Teaching endowment
$20,000
Instit of Contemporary Art Laica La (Via Smmoa) · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Agency of assets
$20,000
People'S Pottery Project (Via Fulcrum Arts) · Pasadena, CA · 2023
People's pottery project
$20,000
UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies (Via UCLA Foundatio · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Teaching endowment
$20,000
Instit of Contemporary Art Laica La (Via Smmoa) · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
Agency of assets
$20,000
Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies (Via UCLA Foundation) · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Teaching endowment
$19,790
Salt Spring Island Foundation (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2022
Indigenous priorities fund
$19,500
(the) Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2024
General operating support
$19,138
Salt Spring Island Foundation · 2024
Ip fund #1 of 3
$18,810
Raven (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2023
General operating support
$18,734
Raven · 2024
General operating support
$18,532
Raven (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2022
General operating support
$17,646
Stqeeye' Learning Society · 2024
General operating support
$15,832
Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust (Via Vancouver Foundation) · 2022
Composter
$15,500
Venice Biennale (Via Artis) · New York, NY · 2022
Israel exhibit
$15,000
Art Division · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Artis - Art Israel Contemporary · New York, NY · 2024
Venice biennale israel pavillion
$15,000
Berman Art Museum · Collegeville, PA · 2024
Presidents discretionary fund
$15,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Staff position #1 of 2
$15,000
Creative Acts · Inglewood, CA · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Crenshaw Dairy Mart (Via Fractured Atlas) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Film2future · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley · Allentown, PA · 2024
Gos #1 of 2
$15,000
La County Dept of Arts and Culture · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Arts education collective
$15,000
Las Fotos Project (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$15,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Contemporary art committee
$15,000
Artis - Art Israel Contemporary · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Community organizer position
$15,000
Creative Acts · Inglewood, CA · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Crenshaw Dairy Mart (Via Fractured Atlas) · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Film2future · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley · Allentown, PA · 2023
2023 campaign for jewish needs
$15,000
Las Photos Project (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Contemporary art committee
$15,000
Artis - Art Israel Contemporary · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$15,000
Clockshop · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General operating support
$15,000
Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley · Allentown, PA · 2022
2022 campaign for jewish needs
$15,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Contemporary art committee
$12,000
The Civics Center (Via Community Partners) · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Democracy in a box
$12,000
The Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2023
Society of fellows
$12,000
Huc-Jir · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Rabbi richard & carol levy scholarship
$12,000
The Huntington · San Marino, CA · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Allentown Area Ecumenical Food Bank · Allentown, PA · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Beit Berl College (Via Pef Israel) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv (Via the New Israel Fund) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Hola (Heart of Los Angeles) · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Huc-Jir · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Teacher's lounge project #1 of 2
$10,000
Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (Via America Israel Cultural Foundation Inc) · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support

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