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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| GO CAMPAIGN | $10,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MO | $10,000 |
| ENSWORTH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HARDING SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL REFORM CONGREGATION | $3,000 |
| MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +55% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $63k · revenue +62%
- TETHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TATHE ASSOCIATEDone grant, 2017 · $175k
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +149%
- TNThe New City School Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Learn in to Live Again. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 96 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds MENLO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Go Campaign ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
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: 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
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 Bernstein Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maryland New Directions Inc — 8% of income from government
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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