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Bernard Charitable Trust at a glance

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Bernard Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$30kPhilanthropy$21kReligion$18kHousing & Shelter$17kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$4kEmployment$2kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,163
Median grant
4
States reached
$256k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY KOLLEL OF KANSAS CITY$2,936
JEWISH FED OF GREAT KANSAS CITY$2,936
BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,327
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS$1,163
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN IL$1,163
MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE$582
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$582
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $632 → 12%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $582 → 12%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $564 → 12%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $538 → 12%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $533 → 12%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $533 → 12%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $2k → 11%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $531 → 12%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $504 → 12%MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $478 → 12%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$89k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+34%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionAnimalsEmploymentOther
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

  • CK
    Community Kollel of Kansas City Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +38%
  • RV
    RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +10%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY FOR BOONE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +34%
  • IZ
    Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +15%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLISgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +135%
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
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
2
Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
3
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
4
Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Physicians Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
8
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
9
Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
10
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Indiana University Health Blackford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis; the most unlike its peers is Madison County Urban League Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $21,699 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,895 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENCAROLINE SYMMES INC: $1,775 · HealthCAROLINE SYMMES INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $11,670 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOU…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $9,789 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST…Community Kollel of Kansas City Inc: $18,410 · ReligionCommunity Kollel of …RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $12,494 · Human ServicesRAINBOW VILLAGE PRO…MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $4,895 · Human ServicesMADISON COUNTY URBA…JEWISH FED OF GREAT KANSAS CITY: $5,042 · OtherJEWISH FED …HUMANE SOCIETY FOR BOONE COUNTY INC: $2,106 · OtherHUMANE SOCI…JEWISH COMM RELATIONS BUREAUAJC: $1,776 · OtherJEWISH COMM…PEYTON MANNING CHILDREN'S HOSP: $1,593 · OtherPEYTON MANN…Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $1,880 · AnimalsDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $1,776 · Employment
Health$28,369Philanthropy$21,459Religion$18,410Human Services$17,389Other$10,517Animals$1,880Employment$1,776

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $21,699 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Kollel of Kansas City Inc: $18,410 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $12,494 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $11,670 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $9,789 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $4,895 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $4,895 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY FOR BOONE COUNTY INC: $2,106 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $1,880 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $1,776 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINE SYMMES INC: $1,775 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Community Kollel of Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MADISON COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY FOR BOONE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINE SYMMES INC ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Bernard Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 14 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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