Skip to content
Bernard Ettinger Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Bernard Ettinger Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$289kHealth$72kArts & Culture$49kFood & Nutrition$49kReligion$29kHuman Services$17kInternational$9kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$100
Median grant
14
States reached
$678k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$33,000
METRO OPERA$5,275
JEWISH FED OF SOUTH PALM BEACH$5,250
RAYMOND KRAVIS CENTER$2,000
BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION$1,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$1,000
LAKE SUCESS JEWISH CENTER$967
GLEN OAKS CLUB$750
FDN FIGHTING BLINDNESS$500
NORTHWELL HEALTH FDN$500
ASSOCIATIONRENEWAL$350
AMERICAN HEART ASSOC$250
BLOOD CANCER UNITED$200
TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME$200
CHILDRENS HUNGER RELIEF FUND$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $450 → 8%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $228 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 7%RE MEMBER: $250 → 42%AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $150 → 8%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $130 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 7%RE MEMBER: $250 → 42%AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE: $100 → 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $125 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $75 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $125 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $75 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $70 → 11%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $58 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $50 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 9%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $50 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $50 → 9%HANDS ON TZEDKAH: $2k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH: $2k → 11%HANDS ON TZEDKAH: $500 → 11%HANDS ON TZEDAKAH: $500 → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $100 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 14%SID JACOBSON JCC: $500 → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $200 → 6%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $200 → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100 → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $80 → 17%MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $72 → 17%DOROT: $50 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$521k · 113 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

113 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
95

Total granted

$521k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622 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 ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $287k · revenue +39%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +17%
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +17%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DVAR AVRAHAM
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
8
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

—
9
Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Israel Childrens Cancer Foundation 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

90 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. 90 of the 213 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/90
Grantees still filing
66/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $286,850 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF …+1 more: $380 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FED OF SOUTH PALM BEACH: $47,300 · OtherJEWISH FED OF SOUTH PALM BEACHLAKE SUCCESS JEWISH CENTER: $22,660 · OtherLAKE SUCCESS JEWISH CENTERMETRO OPERA: $17,655 · OtherMETRO OPERAGLEN OAKS CLUB INC: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,100 · Other+132 more: $45,132 · Other+132 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $27,600 · HealthNORTHWELL HE…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,650 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $4,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATI…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · HealthCROHN'S & CO…+25 more: $11,359 · Health+25 moreRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,970 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $922 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 · Human ServicesKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $736 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $700 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC: $700 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $675 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $650 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesRE-MEMBER: $500 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $452 · Human Services+3 more: $550 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,050 · InternationalHIAS INC: $461 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $372 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $250 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $200 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $200 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $150 · International+4 more: $372 · InternationalBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,450 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$287,230Other$144,347Health$59,109Arts & Culture$29,892Human Services$10,513International$4,255Community Improvement$1,450

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $286,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $27,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $10,970 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN OAKS CLUB INC: $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,580 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $736 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $675 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $622 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $619 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $525 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRE-MEMBER: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC: $475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $461 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $452 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetB NAI B RITH: $438 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK INC: $415 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $372 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $360 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEN OAKS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON TZEDAKAH INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds KIDS WISH NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.

Jewish Communal FundChubb Charitable Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Ettinger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard Ettinger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • New England Village Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 213 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Bernard Ettinger’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home