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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 FY2024still arriving
122
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.6MArts & Culture$4.6MHousing & Shelter$2.9MFood & Nutrition$2.7MHealth$2.3MInternational$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $655k
  • $50k–250k70 grants · $5.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.1M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federation of Greater Washington$1,000,000
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden$375,000
Bread for the City Inc$350,000
Peace for DC$333,333
Greater Washington Community Foundation$250,000
Dreaming Out Loud Inc$250,000
DC Jewish Community Center$250,000
New Israel Fund$250,000
Arena Stage$200,000
Miriam's Kitchen$166,667
Martha's Table$150,000
Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Develop$150,000
Social Good Fund$150,000
DC Central Kitchen Inc$100,000
Capital Area Food Bank$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sunflower of Peace Foundation Inc: $10k → 8%Casa San Jose: $5k → 11%Make The Road States Inc: $15k → 20%Sisters PGH: $3k → 11%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $40k → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $40k → 8%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $25k → 8%Miriam's Kitchen: $167k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $167k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $25k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $25k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $25k → 14%Zero to Three: $20k → 14%Jewish Foundation for Group Homes: $25k → 8%Zero to Three: $20k → 14%Zero to Three: $10k → 14%Miriam's Kitchen: $10k → 14%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Jewish Social Service Agency: $35k → 8%Reach Incorporated: $10k → 14%Bottomless Closet: $3k → 17%Ayuda: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $35k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Centro Nia: $25k → 14%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $50k → 14%Mamatoto Village: $50k → 14%Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc: $50k → 14%Mamatoto Village: $50k → 14%DC Abortion Fund: $15k → 14%Washington Area Women's Foundation: $5k → 14%Washington Area Women's Foundation: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 116 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 94 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
62

Total granted

$24M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

62%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $679k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MT
    MARTHA'S TABLE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $975k · revenue +70%
  • WD
    WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $962k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • FO
    Food On The Stove Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -90%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -28%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jews United for Justice Inc

Jews united for justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in the baltimore-washington region by educating and mobilizing our local jewish communities to action.

Religion
2
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
3
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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4
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
5
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
6
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
9
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

131 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. 131 of the 210 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/131
Grantees still filing
85/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: $1,500,000 · OtherHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenCommunity Foundation: $790,000 · Other+142 more: $14,931,319 · Other+142 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,360,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION …JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $450,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORKGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $335,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $398,500 · Philanthropy+7 moreWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $962,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $800,000 · Arts & CultureWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS CENTER: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $105,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $42,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,020,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $975,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $315,000 · Food & NutritionFood On The Stove Inc: $125,000 · Food & NutritionPEACE FOR DC: $666,667 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $370,000 · Crime & LegalTZEDEK DC INC: $235,000 · Crime & LegalCHANGING PERCEPTIONS: $100,000 · Crime & LegalDC JUSTICE LAB: $100,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $87,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $735,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $425,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $50,000 · International+3 more: $60,000 · InternationalMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $418,334 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $245,000 · Human ServicesCENTRONIA: $210,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FOUNDATION FOR GROUP HOMES INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $102,500 · Human Services
Other$17,221,319Philanthropy$6,543,500Arts & Culture$2,549,500Food & Nutrition$2,435,000Crime & Legal$1,558,667International$1,420,000Human Services$1,355,834

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,360,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,020,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $975,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $962,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $800,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $735,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPEACE FOR DC: $666,667 over 2y, 22% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $475,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $470,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC: $465,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $450,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $430,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $425,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $425,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $418,334 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $370,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $335,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $315,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF HOPE: $310,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $290,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $275,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDC POLICY CENTER: $250,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $245,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDEK DC INC: $235,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $234,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $230,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $230,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC: $225,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRONIA: $210,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc: $200,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $200,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetDC Greens Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place: $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $160,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $155,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $150,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetREACH Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE DC: $150,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $140,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PEACE FOR DC ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON HOUSING CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds DC POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRONIA ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC74.7× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Film Festival Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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