Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Donald Bernstein Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Donald Bernstein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $77k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $101k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $98k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $66k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $88k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $79k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $88k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $81k | 81% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Discovery Center Inc | $35,700 | 7 | 1% |
| Concours D'Elegance of America | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Classic Car Club of America Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Waverly Community House Inc | $2,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Scranton Jazz Festival | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,245 | 5 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $1,125 | 3 | 0% |
| Countryside Conservancy | $1,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Keystone College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broadway Theatre League of Scranton Inc | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($691k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald Bernstein 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: Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Margaret Briggs Foundation · Robert H Spitz Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Hawk Family Foundation · Walter L Schautz Foundation · Rosenberg Charitable Foundation · Schwartz-Mack Foundation · Eureka Foundation · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · Robert y Moffat Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Donald Bernstein Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Donald Bernstein Family Foundation
- How much does Donald Bernstein Family Foundation give?
- Donald Bernstein Family Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $77,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald Bernstein Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (50%), Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Donald Bernstein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish Discovery Center Inc ($36k), Concours D'Elegance of America ($3k), Classic Car Club of America Inc ($3k).
- Does Donald Bernstein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald Bernstein 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 Donald Bernstein Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scranton Area Foundation Inc, Margaret Briggs Foundation, Robert H Spitz Foundation.
- Where is Donald Bernstein Family Foundation based?
- Donald Bernstein Family Foundation is based in PA.
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