· Private foundation
Bernard a & Rebecca S Bernard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADV FUND | $81,084 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE | $23,000 |
| CHEDER CHABAD OF PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| LIMEN HOUSE | $7,500 |
| LONGWOOD | $7,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $5,600 |
| A PUBLIC FIT THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| COCKROACH THEATER | $5,000 |
| INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| BNAI JACOB CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,400 |
| GRAND GALA OPERA HOUSE | $2,200 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI BRITH | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +29%- LHLIMEN HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +241%
- TFTALLEYVILLE FIRE COMPANY INC3× · 2018–2024 · $750 · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SSSALESIANUM SCHOOL INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- LFLUMEN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BNAI JACOB CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON FLOWER MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds TargetCancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Graham Foundation · Vinton Family Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard a & Rebecca S Bernard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard a & Rebecca S Bernard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Limen House Inc: 38% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc: 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc: 8% of income from government
- Grand Opera House Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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