Maryland · Private foundation
Bernard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $803k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Bernard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $803k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $292k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $420k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $436k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $319k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $307k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $271k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc | $665,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Sunflower Bakery Inc | $125,250 | 3 | 5% |
| The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc | $104,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District Inc | $87,500 | 4 | 55% |
| Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc | $63,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Save a Child's Heart Foundation US Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jewish Council for the Aging of Greater Washington Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Round House Theatre Inc | $53,850 | 4 | 1% |
| The McLean School of Maryland Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Bernard Family Foundation
- How much does Bernard Family Foundation give?
- Bernard Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $802,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bernard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Bernard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc ($665k), Children's Inn at Nih Inc ($225k), Sunflower Bakery Inc ($125k).
- Does Bernard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Clark-Winchcole Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is Bernard Family Foundation based?
- Bernard Family Foundation is based in MD.
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