Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Diane & Norman Bernstein 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.
- $8.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 122
- Grants FY2024
- 116
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 116
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $111M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 | 117 | $7.2M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 116 | $6.5M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $3.7M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $3.0M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $1.8M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $1.5M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $1.2M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $960k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martha's Table Inc | $1,020,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $975,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Washington Drama Society Inc | $962,000 | 7 | 2% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $800,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Peace for DC | $666,667 | 2 | 22% |
| Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc | $475,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dreaming Out Loud Inc | $470,000 | 5 | 6% |
| The Washington Housing Conservancy Inc | $465,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Jewish Funders Network | $450,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc | $430,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 127 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 74 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · England Family Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc
- How much does Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc give?
- Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc reported 122 grants totaling $8,869,207 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 116 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Martha's Table Inc ($1.0M), Bread for the City Inc ($975k), Washington Drama Society Inc ($962k).
- Does Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc 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 Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation.
- Where is Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc based?
- Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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