· Private foundation
Bernhardt Furniture Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW INC | $25,000 |
| CMH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HELPING HANDS | $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 |
| ROBIN'S NEST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CTR | $10,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH | $10,000 |
| WEST CALDWELL HEALTH COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CCC&TI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CALDWELL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $6,500 |
| FOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NC | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Caldwell County Yokefellow Inc ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CLINIC 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 CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernhardt Furniture Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernhardt Furniture Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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