California · Private foundation
Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation
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.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2025
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 98 to 118
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 119 | $2.0M | 3% |
| FY2024 | 116 | $1.9M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 118 | $1.8M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 111 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 109 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 98 | $1.6M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 102 | $1.5M | 9% |
| FY2018 | 107 | $1.6M | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Services for Children Inc | $950,000 | 9 | 4% |
| St Vincents Day Home | $650,000 | 8 | 2% |
| BlueSkies for Children Inc | $507,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Advokids | $279,500 | 9 | 9% |
| Bay Area Community Resources Inc | $262,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Step One School | $230,000 | 9 | 2% |
| East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc | $217,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Early Intervention on Deafness | $212,500 | 9 | 1% |
| East Bay Agency for Children | $207,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Berkeley Public Schools Fund | $206,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 157 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: East Bay Community Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Quest Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Barrios Trust · Tipping Point Community · Marin Community Foundation · Chamberlin Family Philanthropy
How this is measured
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About Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation give?
- Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation reported 122 grants totaling $2,000,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 98 and 118 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Crime & Legal (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legal Services for Children Inc ($950k), St Vincents Day Home ($650k), BlueSkies for Children Inc ($507k).
- Does Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, Lowell Berry Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
- Where is Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation based?
- Bernard E & Alba Witkin Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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