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Edward M Bernstein Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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

NY
NV
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
AZ
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -12% for those 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%
-12%

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
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

  • 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
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -23%
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
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.

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; 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 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. 18 of the 28 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSTOP DUI INC: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAUMA RECOVERY YOGA: $100 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Engelstad Family Foun…Alan and Christy Mola…NV Energy Charitable …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Edward M Bernstein Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward M Bernstein Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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