Illinois · Private foundation
Carol Bernick Family 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.
- $451k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 100
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Carol Bernick Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 56 | $451k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $616k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $459k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $365k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $693k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 98 | $402k | 49% |
| FY2018 | 95 | $457k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 100 | $735k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $470,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $125,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $114,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Recipe for Change | $110,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of Prentice | $82,800 | 5 | 5% |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $74,000 | 7 | 1% |
| New Vocations Racehorse Adoption | $72,200 | 2 | 2% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 218 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 116 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carol Bernick Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Lavin Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation
How this is measured
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About Carol Bernick Family Foundation
- How much does Carol Bernick Family Foundation give?
- Carol Bernick Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $450,962 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 100 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Carol Bernick Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (12%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Carol Bernick Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($471k), Northwestern University ($126k), Big Shoulders Fund ($115k).
- Does Carol Bernick Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carol Bernick Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carol Bernick Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lavin Family Foundation, Robert R McCormick Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Carol Bernick Family Foundation based?
- Carol Bernick Family Foundation is based in IL.
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