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Bernstein Ritenis Foundation at a glance

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Bernstein Ritenis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$72kInternational$70kHuman Services$29kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$11kHealth$6kEnvironment$4k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY$50,000
SPELMAN COLLEGE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$50,000
NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$25,000
HEARTS TO HOMES FURNISHINGS INC$25,000
SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE$25,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$1,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
SOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER FIREMENS BENEVOLENT ASSOC INC$1,000
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
SHELTER ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $1k → 7%HEARTS TO HOMES FURNISHINGS INC: $25k → 9%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $300k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY: $50k → 19%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $500 → 7%SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $25k → 9%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $25k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY: $50k → 19%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $1k → 7%SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $25k → 9%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY: $50k → 19%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $1k → 7%SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $25k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY: $50k → 19%SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $1k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%SOUTHHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%HEARTS TO HOMES: $25k → 9%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 17%SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 17%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $1k → 7%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 17%PECONIC LAND TRUST: $500 → 7%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $25k → 17%NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $25k → 17%NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $10k → 17%NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $10k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$914k · 14 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$914k
$27k

Still filing today

79%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +29%
  • SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $76k · revenue +2%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HT
    HEARTS TO HOMES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Hamilton College: $325,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeUniversity of Miami: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiSpelman College: $200,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $76,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE+2 more: $4,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - BALTIMORE COUNTY: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - B…NYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $70,000 · OtherNYUSTERN SCHOOL OF BUSINES…HEARTS TO HOMES: $25,000 · OtherHEARTS TO HOMES+4 more: $6,500 · OtherNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $70,000 · InternationalHEARTS TO HOMES FURNISHINGS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Health
Education$805,250Other$301,500Arts & Culture$71,500International$70,000Philanthropy$25,000Environment$14,500Health$3,500

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 budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $76,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS TO HOMES FURNISHINGS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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