· Private foundation
Bari Milken Bernstein & Fred J Bernstein Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Np1 Llc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MILKEN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $58,000 |
| LOS ANGELES BALLET | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $36,000 |
| CTEEN UPPER WEST SIDE INC UNIT 11741 | $36,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CONNECT ISRAEL | $25,000 |
| BERKELEY HILLEL | $20,000 |
| KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND - KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL | $18,000 |
| TEMPLE OF THE ARTS | $18,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LALOS ANGELES BALLET INC5× · 2020–2024 · $310k · revenue +83%
- TMTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +182%
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TLTHE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +59%
- UFUCLA FOUNDATION - WOODEN ATHLETIC FUNDone grant, 2021 · $35k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2020 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Israel scholarship education foundation's mission is to narrowisrael's socio-economic gap through higher education. its unique methodology combines scholarship support for gifted young people fromdisadvantaged backgrounds with community…
Brown risd hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their jewish identities. we are committed to having judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during their time on college hill and…
The fund's primary exempt mission is to solicit grants and contributions to support the educational mission of the bar-ilan university's azrieli faculty of medicine in the galilee.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Connect Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HILLEL ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECT ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DUVDEVAN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds WEST LOS ANGELES LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bari Milken Bernstein & Fred J Bernstein Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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