· Private foundation
Carol and Alan J Bernon Family Charitable Foundation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| WORCESTER ACADEMY | $105,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS (LONE STAR) | $85,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS | $50,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY OF DALLAS | $30,000 |
| USA FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| DALLAS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PTO | $20,000 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS - BOSTON | $10,000 |
| DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| BRITTNEY'S BELIEVERS FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY19–22, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- HUHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
- NYNew York University5× · 2019–2024 · $958k · revenue +51%
- WAWORCESTER ACADEMY5× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSone grant, 2019 · $191k
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Of Americagraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +197%
- DFDFACARES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +6%
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.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
Torah Day School of Dallas is a day school for jewish children grades kindergarden through eigth grade along with pre-school for one through four year old jewish children. The school provides a general studies and secular education meeting…
The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The purpose of dallas baptist university is to provide christ-centered quality higher education in the arts, sciences, and professional studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to traditional age and adult students in order to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salesmanship Club of Dallas and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 29 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 HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds USA FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds DFACARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Grace Academy of Dallas ↗
- Who funds DALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Carol and Alan J Bernon Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% 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.