· 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.
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 $10k17 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k70 grants · $5.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $679k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMARTHA'S TABLE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $975k · revenue +70%
- WDWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $962k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FOFood On The Stove Incone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -90%
- NRNATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -30%
- HIHIAS INCone 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.
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.
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.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 ↗
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- 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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