· Private foundation
David Bershad 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| TEMPLE SHAREY TEFILO ISRAEL | $55,735 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ | $20,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VLVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN7× · 2017–2023 · $648k · revenue +254%
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +102%
Cornell University7× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +104%
- UFUJA FEDERATION OF NYSone grant, 2017 · $16k
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 92 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.
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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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Open Society Institute · JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · The Prudential Foundation · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David Bershad Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Bershad Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Newark Public Radio Inc: 51% of income from government
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
- Newark School of the Arts: 20% of income from government
- Newark Arts Council: 16% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in: 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
- Montclair Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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