· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carol and Alan J Bernon Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol and Alan J Bernon Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
How this is measured
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