· Private foundation
Bernard a & Rebecca S Bernard Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of BERNARD A & REBECCA S BERNARD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| INLAND VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| COCKROACH THEATER | $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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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
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
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE3× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +29%- LHLIMEN HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +331%
- 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
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. 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 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 60 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 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 THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
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: 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
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 Bernard a & Rebecca S Bernard 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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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