Maryland · Private foundation
Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $348k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $263k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $100k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Women's Law Center | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $18,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
About Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund
- How much does Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund give?
- Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund reported 3 grants totaling $35,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Civil Rights (15%), Health (10%).
- Who are Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Anti-Defamation League ($40k), National Women's Law Center ($30k), NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($25k).
- Does Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund based?
- Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund is based in MD.
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