Rhode Island · Private foundation
Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $509k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $254,675
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 15 | $509k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $413k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $423k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $432k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $419k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $418k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $480k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $451k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Dba Temple Beth-El | $1,752,865 | 8 | n/a |
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | $450,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Jewish Collaborative Services | $364,606 | 6 | 3% |
| Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc | $226,000 | 6 | 11% |
| The Miriam Hospital | $81,565 | 3 | 0% |
| The Miriam Hospital Foundation | $66,520 | 5 | 1% |
| The Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Jewish Family Service Inc | $49,302 | 2 | 1% |
| Brown Hillel Foundation | $33,000 | 3 | 1% |
| In-Sight | $23,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($409k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helene & Bertram Bernhardt 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Winstead Charitable Foundation Tr · The Pearle W & Martin M Silverstein Foundation · Ress Family Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · The Sand Foundation · Forman Family Charitable Trust · The Norman and Rosalie Fain Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation
- How much does Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation give?
- Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $508,634 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Human Services (20%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Dba Temple Beth-El ($1.8M), Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island ($450k), Jewish Collaborative Services ($365k).
- Does Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky Foundation, The Champlin Foundation.
- Where is Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation based?
- Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation is based in RI.
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