The Steven and Ilene Berger Family Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to organizations that provide services for children and those who are disabled or indigent.
Donor Name: Steven and Ilene Berger Family Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA), Philadelphia County (PA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/01/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of the foundation is to help people live better, longer and more meaningful lives. The Foundation strives to promote, advocate and support its philanthropic values and causes that speak to its sensibilities. By choosing projects and grant recipients who are ambitious and results driven, it is the Foundation’s hope that the benefits will be witnessed during the lifetimes of those alive at the time a grant is made.
Program Areas 

Education
Health
Public/society benefit

Funding Information
Average grant size: $2,500 to $50,000.
Population Served 
Children and individuals who are disabled or indigent.
Geographic Limitations
The Foundation will focus primarily on organizations located in Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Philadelphia Counties, Pennsylvania.
Eligible Requirements

To be eligible, organizations must qualify as exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The Foundation expects to receive genuine quantitative feedback from recipients, so they can clearly ascertain, understand, and evaluate the benefits realized.

Criteria

Passion: The Foundation values that the recipient feels passionate and devoted to the cause they serve.
Collaboration: The Foundation expects the recipient to want to collaborate with others to achieve their goals.
Impact: The Foundation prefers its philanthropy to have a reasonable significance in terms of the total amount to be required to achieve the goal(s) of the recipient.
Leverage: The Foundation endeavors to maximize the benefit of every dollar. While leverage is not an essential criterion in evaluating a charity, it should be considered. A grant may be based on a value other than leverage such as one based on gratitude.

Program Limitations
The foundation typically does not fund requests for:

Deficit financing
Construction or renovations to real estate not owned by the charitable entity
Salaries
Professional fundraiser fees.

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