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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “berger”
Where the money went
Largest: $109,050 to GLENN BERGER LCSW — social work services
Largest: $41,981 to University of Florida — scholarships for jose berger ($5,000), dashna corneille ($12,898), armando cruz ($7,250), djaina-shae dervil ($989), briana flores ($4,000), mary huttel ($6,004), and brandon manci…
Largest: $3,350 to ELI BERGER — college scholarship
Largest: $1,500 to KAITLYN BERGERS — 2023 louis j. la croce medical/health sciences scholarship: encourage students in these fields of study
Largest: $27,500 to SUSANNA BERGER — fine arts research
Largest: $700,000 to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — berger: phase 3
Largest: $52,616 to Honor Health Foundation — to help pay for the h.n. and frances c. berger foundation k-9 training field
Largest: $25,000 to THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — in appreciation of robert a. wislow, wendy berger and david r. casper
The Doyle FoundationSan Clemente, CA
2 matching grants · $6,266 · through 2024Largest: $4,000 to JACOB BERGER — educational scholarship
Largest: $40,000 to Friends of the Verde River — 2022 bob berger honorarium grant
Largest: $5,000 to University of Kansas — ku endowment to support watkins-berger scholarship fund
Largest: $1,500 to INSTITUTION MIXTE COMMUNAUTAIRE BON BERGER — support programs
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →

