How much did JOANIE JEANNE AND HOWARD BERNARD FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of JOANIE JEANNE AND HOWARD BERNARD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

humaneanimalcincinnatianimals

2021

saveanimalscincinnatianimal

2022

animalscincinnatianimal

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$93,406,507

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

THE JOANIE BERNARD FOUNDATION$93,406,507

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.4M · 11 repeat orgs$96M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.4M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+50%

Still filing today

45%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

NK
NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT
3× · 2020–2022 · $450k · revenue +91%
ST
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +103%
LF
LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +82%

Funded once

CA
CINCINNATI ANIMAL CAREgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $586k · revenue +136%
UC
UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $535k · revenue +50% · 30% of their budget
US
UCAN SPAYNEUTER CLINIC
one grant, 2021 · $400k

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.

Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue

The kentucky humane society is a champion for companion animals, through leadership, education and proactive solutions, we are creating more compassionate communities.

Animals

Fulton County Humane Society

Animal adoption, spay and neuter programs.

Animals

Save Ohio Pets

SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…

Animals

Save Ohio Strays

Provide for rescue, care, etc. of animals in need

Animals

Prevent Homeless Pets

Our mission is to collaborate with individuals and humane rescue groups in order to save the lives of homeless dogs and cats by promoting and facilitating access to affordable, high volume/high quality spay and neuter surgeries in a…

Animals

Humane Society of Union County Inc

The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.

Animals

Abandoned Animal Rescue

AAR is an all volunteer organization that works towards ending pet overpopulation that results in the euthanasia of unwanted cats and dogs by providing a rescue and adoption center by emphasizing the importance of spaying and neutering and…

Animals

Freedom Tails Ohio

Animal Rescue

Animals

Shelter Animals Count

See Schedule O. Shelter Animals Count is the trusted source for collecting and sharing credible and accessible data to positively impact animals and communities.

Animals

Paws 4 the Cause Inc

Our mission is to help the homeless and injured animals of Kentucky through proper vet care and re-homing programs. We are also a strong advocate for spay and neuter within the region.

Public Benefit

Animalkind Inc

To control the overpopulation of unwanted, abandoned, or lost and homeless pets by trapping, spaying-neutering, vaccinating, and releasing or arranging for their adoption.

Animals

Humane Society & Animal Rescue

To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clermont Animal Care Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Northern Kentucky Area Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

8/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$98,741,707Animals$1,929,000Community Improvement$450,000

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

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.

Joanie C Bernard FoundationOH24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joanie C Bernard Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Foundation · American Modern Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Petco Love · Duke Energy Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 organisation JOANIE JEANNE AND HOWARD BERNARD 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MY FURRY VALENTINE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471892268 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MY FURRY VALENTINE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 37% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOANIE JEANNE AND HOWARD BERNARD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation?

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JOANIE JEANNE AND HOWARD BERNARD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation?

More from the funding graph