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Edward M Bernstein Charitable 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$197kPhilanthropy$71kArts & Culture$21kEducation$9kCivil Rights$7kRecreation & Sports$2kReligion$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$235k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$25,000
MONDAY'S DARK$10,000
BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$282k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
19

Total granted

$282k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

63%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyInternationalCivil RightsEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $168k · revenue +15%
  • MD
    MONDAYS DARK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +173%
  • BD
    BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • LV
    LAS VEGAS WALK OF STARS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BL
    Ballsfest LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • UW
    UNLV WILLIAM S BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2019 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nevada Legal Services Inc

To ensure equal access to justice for low-income nevadans.

Crime & Legal
2
Nevada Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Cancer research.

Health
3
Nevada Donor Network Inc

Nevada donor network (the "network") is a federally designated not-for-profit organ, tissue, and eye procurement organization. the network is responsible for the coordination, recovery, and distribution of donated human organs and tissues…

Health
4
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

5
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…

Human Services
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

7
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
8
Barrow Neurological Foundation

To support barrow neurological institute, a department of st. joseph's hospital and medical center, which is in turn a division of dignity health. dignity health operates as a major subsidiary within commonspirit, which is one of the…

Health
9
Gender Justice Nevada

Dedicated to an intersectional approach to changing law, policy, and attitudes so that all nevadans can live safely, authentically and free from fear, violence and mistreatment regardless of their sex/gender identity or expression.

10
The Nevada Discovery Museum

Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.

11
Nevada Right to Life Foundation

Provide prolife education and outreach activities throughout the state of nevada

12
Jewish Voters Unite Inc

The jewish voters unite's mission is to educate and mobilize jewish communities to participate in every election and make their voices heard at the polls.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Judes Ranch for Children 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $168,250 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INCBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION — $17,500 · HealthBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION+1 more — $500 · HealthMONDAYS DARK — $70,000 · PhilanthropyMONDAYS DARK+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyLAS VEGAS WALK OF STARS — $20,000 · OtherLAS VEGAS WALK…CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERI — $10,000 · OtherCROHN'S COLITI…Ballsfest LLC — $2,000 · Other+15 more — $6,760 · Other+15 moreTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $7,700 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $7,400 · Civil RightsBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $250 · InternationalST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC — $500 · Human Services
Health$186,250Philanthropy$70,500Other$38,760Education$7,700Civil Rights$7,400International$1,250Human Services$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $168,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONDAYS DARK — $70,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $7,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $7,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Conservation League — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTORIETY GIVES INC — $500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER — $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject REAL — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP DUI INC — $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRAUMA RECOVERY YOGA — $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Engelstad Family FoundationNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Engelstad Family Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Edward M Bernstein Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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