Bertelsmann Foundation North America

The Washington based arm of a major European foundation, working across the Atlantic through research, storytelling, and fellowships on democracy, geopolitics, leadership, and the digital world.

Financial profile

Bertelsmann Foundation North America · EIN 71-1048702 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$3,259,837$3,125,034$2,120,012Dec 2023
FY2022$3,511,666$3,267,764$1,985,209Dec 2022
FY2021$2,592,282$2,645,214$1,741,307Dec 2021
FY2020$2,718,728$2,814,633$1,794,239Dec 2020
FY2019$4,443,246$4,017,832$1,890,144Dec 2019
FY2015$2,987,304$3,102,848$1,037,675Dec 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Bertelsmann Foundation North America is read alongside.

Who backs BFNA

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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The outside view

The Washington based arm of a major European foundation, working across the Atlantic through research, storytelling, and fellowships on democracy, geopolitics, leadership, and the digital world.

  • Authority
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Citadel

Led from the center, built to endure.

The Citadel runs on clarity and decisiveness, its direction held by a strong center the whole organization moves behind. Its gift is speed and coherence, its challenge is leaning too heavily on the few at the middle.

Also reads toward The Movement and The Frontier.

Strengths

→Decisions are clear and rarely second-guessed.
→Members trust that the institution will still be standing tomorrow.
→Strong operations keep the core running without drama.

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