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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$571k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
GO CAMPAIGN$10,500
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HARDING SCHOOL$5,000
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$4,000
CENTRAL REFORM CONGREGATION$3,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$3,000
MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS$2,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GO CAMPAIGN: $11k → 14%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $250 → 16%BEA GADDY FAMILY CENTERS: $1k → 19%AIM HIGH: $500 → 10%THE BRIDGE INC: $500 → 17%AIM HIGH: $250 → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $500 → 17%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
MI
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566k · 36 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
54

Total granted

$566k
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+32%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
InternationalAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +98%
  • JB
    JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $63k · revenue +62%
  • TE
    THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATED
    one grant, 2017 · $175k
  • LF
    LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +149%
  • TN
    The New City School Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
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 Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
3
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Npr Foundation

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…

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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
11
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
12
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
36/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ASSOCIATED: $175,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATEDPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MO: $36,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MOIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $25,000 · OtherFIRST TEE ST LOUIS: $22,500 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOL: $18,000 · Other+60 more: $170,640 · Other+60 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $125,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…WORLD PEDIATRICS: $18,500 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS+5 more: $6,750 · InternationalJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $63,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS…THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH S…MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationMENLO PARK-ATH…CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationCRYSTAL SPRING…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationStray Rescue of St Louis: $15,000 · AnimalsGATEWAY PET GUARDIANS: $12,500 · AnimalsMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,250 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $7,750 · Animals+3 more: $1,250 · AnimalsLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI: $15,000 · Crime & LegalLEARN IN TO LIVE AGAIN: $1,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalGo Campaign: $10,500 · Human ServicesBEA GADDYS FAMILY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH: $750 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE INC: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human Services
Other$497,140International$150,250Education$106,000Animals$44,750Recreation & Sports$20,000Crime & Legal$16,500Human Services$13,500

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 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
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 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
  • 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 The New City School Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds EVERYMAN THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE LATINA INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bernstein Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernstein Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Maryland New Directions Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bernstein Family Foundation Inc?

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.

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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