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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGN | $55,000 |
| JEWISH DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| PEBBLE BEACH CONCOURS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VALLEY FORGE MILITARY ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| ELAN SKILLED NURSING (FORMERLY JEWISH HOME) | $1,800 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $350 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $300 |
| WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE | $300 |
| SCRANTON CULTURAL CENTER | $250 |
| BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF NEPA | $250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON | $250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF NEPA | $250 |
| REBA & ART DOUGLASS RELIG SCHOOL | $200 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% 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
Backed again, and grew
- WCWAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $2k · revenue +28%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +78%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SBSPINA BIFIDA OF JACKSONVILLEone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CCCLASSIC CAR CLUB OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +45%
- SJSCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +60%
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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 the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
To promote the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, ocd, ptsd, and related disorders and to improve the lives of all people who suffer from them through education, practice, and research.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 130 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.
- Who funds Jewish Discovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CLASSIC CAR CLUB OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WAVERLY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON JAZZ FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY THEATRE LEAGUE OF SCRANTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SCRANTON ↗
- Who funds WRC INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald Bernstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald Bernstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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