· Private foundation
Bernhardt Furniture Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW INC | $25,000 |
| HELPING HANDS | $20,000 |
| CMH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL-CAPITAL CAMPAIGN (1ST PAYMENT OF 5 YEAR PLEDGE) | $20,000 |
| SHELTER HOME OF CALDWELL COUNTY | $15,000 |
| CALDWELL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH | $10,000 |
| CCC&TI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WEST CALDWELL HEALTH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ROBIN'S NEST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR | $10,000 |
| LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $6,500 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NC | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- CCCaldwell County Yokefellow Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +5%
- SHSHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +6%
- TWTHE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CCCALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +88%
- DKDYSART KENDALL AMERICAN LEGION POST 29one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -44%
- HVHAPPY VALLEY SCHOOL PTOone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
The mission of the caldwell chamber of commerce is to encourage economic prosperity by promoting the business interests of caldwell county and enhancing the quality of life in the community.
The organization is a local volunteer fire department providing fire and rescue services to residents in their district.
Services to the elderly
Caldwell medical center's mission is to provide quality, compassionate healthcare.
The caldwell nutrition center mission statement is to provide services to improve the qualitiy of life of older adults through nutrition services, social interaction and health services.
Provide end of life care through the hospice philosophy
Caldwell pregnancy care center, inc. is a locally organizaed and funded ministry which provides counseling, education, and support to women experiencing an untimely pregnancy and to post-abortal women.
In 2024, CCCSF awarded 10 grants totalling $116,150, three 2-day grant writing workshops were conducted servicing non-profit in Caldwell. CCCSF provided non-profit organization management training. CCCSF maintains a county non-profit…
To promote the economic and civic interests of individuals, community leaders, businesses and institutions in caswell county.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay and school and achieve in life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caldwell County United Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collettsville Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 56 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 Caldwell County Yokefellow Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WEST CALDWELL HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HALFWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds FORT DEFIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DYSART KENDALL AMERICAN LEGION POST 29 ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA VALLEY LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MITFORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIG HOUSE FAMILY MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds COLLETTSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Coffey Foundation Inc · Stevens Family Foundation Inc · The Wilson Family Foundation · George Foundation Inc · Hogan Family Foundation Inc · Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Bollinger Foundation Inc · The Jonas Foundation · Caldwell County United Fund Inc
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 Bernhardt Furniture 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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