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Bernard Family Foundation at a glance

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Bernard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$803k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.7MArts & Culture$584kPhilanthropy$332kHuman Services$174kEducation$128kEmployment$125kInternational$66kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $695k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC$50,000
SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE$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
BREASTCANCERORG$5,000
BETHESDA CARES INC$5,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$3,000
DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA$2,500
JBI INTERNATIONAL INC$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $20k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $15k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOME: $3k → 8%BETHESDA CARES INC: $5k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 33 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
30

Total granted

$2.8M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+59%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +242%
  • SB
    SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $125k · revenue +133%
  • TS
    THE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • LE
    LAURENE ENGLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -2%
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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
3
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
4
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
5
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

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…

Health
6
Children's Research Institute

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…

Health
7
Franklin Square Hospital Center Inc

See schedule o medstar franklin square medical center, a member of medstar health, provides the highest quality healthcare and education to our communities.

Health
8
Children's National

Children's national coordinates the overall policy and activities of the affiliated organizations. see schedule o.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Children's Hospital

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…

Health
11
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.

—
12
Center Stage Associates Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $665,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INCSAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $290,000 · OtherSAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITALUNITED JEWISH ENDOWMENT FUND: $270,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH ENDOWMENT FUNDOLNEY THEATRE CENTER: $232,500 · OtherOLNEY THEATRE CENTERSUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE: $230,000 · OtherSUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURESCHRINERS HOSPITAL: $110,000 · Other+36 more: $402,600 · Other+36 moreCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $225,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S IN…CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $63,000 · HealthCENTER FOR AD…SUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $37,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSP…BREASTCANCERORG: $15,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $15,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $22,500 · Health+4 moreTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $104,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STRATHM…Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District Inc: $87,500 · Arts & CultureBethesda Ar…ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $53,850 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE…IMAGINATION STAGE INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION…SIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureSIGNATURE T…+3 more: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $125,250 · EmploymentJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBETHESDA CARES INC: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $50,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationFeynman School Inc: $7,500 · EducationCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,200,100Health$392,500Arts & Culture$317,350Employment$125,250Human Services$77,500Education$77,500Food & Nutrition$16,000

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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE MID-ATLANTIC INC: $665,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $225,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $125,250 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $104,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBethesda Arts and Entertainment District Inc: $87,500 over 4y, 55% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $63,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $53,850 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL INC: $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINATION STAGE INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREASTCANCERORG: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMobile Medical Care Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFeynman School Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 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 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 BREASTCANCERORG ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds DC YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM ↗

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.

Clark-Winchcole Found…The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …Greater Washington Co…Nora Roberts Foundati…Dimick Foundation Joh…United Way of the Nat…William S Abell Found…Posner-Wallace Founda…Dallas Morse Coors Fo…The Gary and Pennie A…John Edward Fowler Me…
Clark-Winchcole FoundationMD36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report 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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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