· Private foundation
Bernard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $230,000 |
| OLNEY THEATRE CENTER | $205,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC | $100,000 |
| SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE | $50,000 |
| THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC | $50,000 |
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC | $37,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH ENDOWMENT FUND | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC (MAKOM) | $20,000 |
| THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BETHESDA CARES INC | $5,000 |
| BREASTCANCERORG | $5,000 |
| PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS | $3,000 |
| DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| JBI INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
- CICHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC4× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +242%
- SBSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +133%
- TSTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UJUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LELAURENE ENGLE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MCMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -2%
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.
Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…
Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…
See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.
Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
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.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feynman School 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 37 years old; the field is 14. 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 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 70 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗
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: Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Posner-Wallace Foundation · Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
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 Family 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.
- Bethesda Cares Inc — 100% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Suburban Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.