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Bernstein Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$89k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$571k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Bernstein Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$89k32%
FY202322$74k36%
FY202224$76k25%
FY202128$92k29%
FY202031$97k45%
FY201927$71k41%
FY201831$93k45%
FY201729$257kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$228kPhilanthropy$176kInternational$145kHealth$95kAnimals$55kRecreation & Sports$49kCivil Rights$43kArts & Culture$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Bernstein Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$125,00080%
John Burroughs School$63,00070%
Lift for Life Academy Inc$20,00010%
The Ensworth School$20,00020%
World Pediatrics$18,50080%
Menlo School$18,00030%
American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri$15,00031%
Stray Rescue of St Louis$15,00080%
Gateway Pet Guardians$12,50060%
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California$12,25080%
Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation$12,00030%
Central Reform Congregation$11,0005n/a
Go Campaign$10,50011%
Crystal Springs Uplands School$10,00020%
The New City School Inc$10,00010%
St Louis Crisis Nursery$10,00050%
Marin Humane Society$8,25070%
Humane Society of Missouri$7,75040%
Everyman Theatre Inc$6,00020%
Adelante Latina Inc$6,00022%
Direct Relief$5,00010%
There With Care of the Bay Area$5,00030%
Kqed Inc$5,00080%
Trinity School$3,2501n/a
Hopalong Animal Rescue$2,75040%
Bea Gaddys Family Center Inc$1,00011%
Maryland New Directions Inc$1,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$1,00010%
Hope for Henry Foundation$1,00010%
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$1,00010%
Echo Resource Development Inc$1,00011%
Learn in to Live Again$1,0001n/a
The Champ Foundation$1,00020%
Forest Park Forever Inc$1,00010%
Aim High$75020%
United Way of Greater St Louis Inc$50010%
Four Paws International Inc$50010%
Treatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of$50010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$50010%
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness$50010%
Lifemoves$50010%
Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$50010%
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$50010%
The Bail Project Inc$50010%
United States Fund for Unicef$50010%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$50010%
The Innocence Project Inc$50010%
Pencils of Promise Incorporated$50010%
Feeding America$50010%
The Bridge Inc$50010%
Dent County Animal Welfare Society$2501n/a
Memorial Assistance Ministries$25010%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($398k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernstein Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $125,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Burroughs School: $63,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLift for Life Academy Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ensworth School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Pediatrics: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMenlo School: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Missouri: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGateway Pet Guardians: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Northern California: $12,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMenlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGo Campaign: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCrystal Springs Uplands School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New City School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Crisis Nursery: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Humane Society: $8,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Missouri: $7,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEveryman Theatre Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdelante Latina Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThere With Care of the Bay Area: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKqed Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHopalong Animal Rescue: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBea Gaddys Family Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMaryland New Directions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Henry Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcho Resource Development Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Champ Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAim High: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater St Louis Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFour Paws International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreatments for Epilepsy and Symptoms of: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Coalition to End Homelessness: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifemoves: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPencils of Promise Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 49.

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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.

The Draper FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Draper Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Intuit Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco 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.

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Find your warmest path to Bernstein Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bernstein Family Foundation Inc

How much does Bernstein Family Foundation Inc give?
Bernstein Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $89,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bernstein Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Philanthropy (21%), International (17%).
Who are Bernstein Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($125k), John Burroughs School ($63k), Lift for Life Academy Inc ($20k).
Does Bernstein Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bernstein Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bernstein Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Draper Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
Where is Bernstein Family Foundation Inc based?
Bernstein Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 96 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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