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Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$221kCivil Rights$115kHealth$79kEducation$51kCrime & Legal$45kFood & Nutrition$29kHuman Services$20kAnimals$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
MID ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ACLU FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%MID ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 19 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$274k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

79%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24’25
EducationCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • NS
    NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -17%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $30,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERNational Cathedral School for Girls: $14,000 · OtherNational Cathedral School for GirlsCenter for Reproductive Rights: $10,000 · OtherCenter for Reproductive RightsSOME INC: $10,000 · OtherSOME INCWAMU: $9,000 · OtherWAMUFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · OtherCAI: $6,000 · OtherHOUSE OF RUTH: $11,500 · OtherHOUSE OF RUTHTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $10,000 · OtherTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO+6 more: $16,000 · Other+6 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $40,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUENAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & ED…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES…NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL STE…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · HealthNEW YORK STE…BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $9,000 · HealthBETHESDA-CHE…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN …MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15,000 · Crime & LegalMID-ATLAN…The Trustees of Princeton University: $15,000 · EducationThe Trust…Cornell University: $13,500 · EducationCornell U…BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $3,000 · EducationBANK STRE…SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationSARAH LAW…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 · Food & NutritionTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $17,500 · Animals
Other$162,500Civil Rights$85,000Health$44,000Crime & Legal$35,000Education$34,500Food & Nutrition$18,500Animals$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES NOT BORDERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arnold and Jeanne Bernstein Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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