· Private foundation
Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k8 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $169k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $254,675 |
| JEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RI | $85,000 |
| JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES | $84,459 |
| CAMP JORI | $25,000 |
| MIRIAM HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| JEWISH COMMITTEE ON SCOUTING | $4,500 |
| INSIGHT RI | $3,500 |
| RI JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY LIBRARIES | $500 |
| CITY YEAR PROVIDENCE | $500 |
| INSPIRING MINDS | $500 |
| PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| JUSTICE ASSISTANCE | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 83% 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
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 +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 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; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND6× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +1%
- JCJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +253%
The Miriam Hospital3× · 2023–2025 · $82k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- HAHILLEL AT UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2023 · $24k
- CBCOMMUNITY BEIT MIDRASH OF RIone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TTHRIVEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +623%
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.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The mission of uri hillel is to enrich the lives of jewish students at the university of rhode island so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…
To represent every constituency of healthcare leadership, as well as health insurance, consumer and public interest. to work collaboratively, come up with innovative solutions, champion changes throughout our organizations, and dedicate…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
To be a proactive advocate for the hospitals in rhode island that is capable of working for and with the hospitals to positively influence public opinion, legislative outcomes and regulatory policy. the purpose of such advocacy is to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Delivering health with care.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 ALLIANCE OF GREATER RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COLLABORATIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Jewish Childrens Home of RI Inc ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH SENIORS AGENCY OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Community Libraries of Providence ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING MINDS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENLOCK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOTTA HAVE SOLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE ASSISTANCE CORP ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helene & Bertram Bernhardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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