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Josh & Deena Bernstein Foundation at a glance

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Josh & Deena Bernstein Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2022
35
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$99kEducation$16kArts & Culture$13kHealth$10kInternational$10kCivil Rights$4kPhilanthropy$4kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2022 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$331k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHINUCH YEHUDI$5,000
YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF WATERBURY$2,000
BNOS CHOMESH ACADEMY$1,500
KULANU$1,250
KEREN HASHVIIS$1,200
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER$1,000
YESHIVA BETH JOSEPH$1,000
YESHIVA UNIVERSITY$1,000
UJA$900
ALLGEMEINER$750
BAIS YAAKOV OF WATERBURY$500
PTACH$500
ORTHODOX UNION$500
UPPER EAST SIDE HATZOLAH$500
BONEI OLAM$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%BONEI OLAM: $500 → 20%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $860 → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $350 → 11%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 20%OHEL CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 20%DOROT: $100 → 17%DOROT: $100 → 17%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
MO
MD
AZ
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 44 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2022, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
42

Total granted

$127k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+76%

Still filing today

45%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
Arts & CultureInternationalReligionHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • CY
    Chinuch Yehudi Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $16k · revenue +599%
  • YU
    YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +39%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • KZ
    KEREN ZICHRON CHAIM ASHER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • YT
    YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM INC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • EA
    ENJOY A BOOK CLUB
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Sherit Isroel
—
3
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
4
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
5
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
6
Yad Laniyim
Philanthropy
7
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
9
University of Judaism Foundation
—
10
The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation
—
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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12
Chabad Lametayel Inc

encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. 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

40 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. 40 of the 100 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YESHIVA GEDOLAH OF WATERBURY: $16,100 · OtherYESHIVA GEDOLAH OF WATERBURYCONGREGATION SHAARAY TEFILA: $13,300 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAARAY TEFILAAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $11,929 · OtherAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICANATIONAL JEWISH THEATER: $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH THEATER+73 more: $63,190 · Other+73 moreChinuch Yehudi Inc: $15,500 · PhilanthropyChinuch Ye…YESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $13,550 · EducationYESHIVA U…Bais Yaakov of Waterbury Inc: $500 · EducationAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,500 · InternationalAMERICAN …KULANU INC: $4,360 · InternationalKULANU IN…ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $2,810 · InternationalONE ISRAE…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $600 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,210 · Human ServicesBonei Olam Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INC: $200 · Human ServicesKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $2,500 · HealthCHAI LIFELINE INC: $970 · HealthUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,200 · ReligionYESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY: $1,180 · ReligionOhr Olam Corp: $500 · ReligionKOLLEL ATERES MORDECHAI: $460 · ReligionKarnei Ohr: $430 · ReligionYESHIVA GEDOLAH KEREN HATORAH INC: $180 · Religion
Other$110,519Philanthropy$15,500Education$14,050International$14,020Human Services$4,410Health$4,070Religion$3,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChinuch Yehudi Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $13,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA: $11,929 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKULANU INC: $4,360 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $2,810 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN EZER LNEFESH: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOhel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC: $1,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $1,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEREN HASHVIIS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBonei Olam Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MIGDAL TORAH INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOhr Olam Corp: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBais Yaakov of Waterbury Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOLLEL ATERES MORDECHAI: $460 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $315 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAYAMA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYESHIVA GEDOLAH KEREN HATORAH INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEYLIM LEV LACHIM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Chinuch Yehudi Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR SHAARE ZEDEK HOSPITAL IN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds KULANU INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD ↗
  • Who funds KEREN EZER LNEFESH ↗
  • Who funds Ohel Childrens Home & Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA TORAS CHAIM INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME ↗
  • Who funds HATZALAH OF THE ROCKAWAYS & NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HASHVIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA OF FAR ROCKAWAY ↗

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.

The Ojc FundJewish Communal FundThe Jmg FoundationJewish Federation of …Jewish Community Foun…F G FoundationBelsky Family Foundat…Terumah Foundation IncRegina Goldwasser Fou…The Basch Family Foun…The Sorala FoundationAssociated Jewish Cha…
The Ojc FundNY34.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · F G Foundation · Belsky Family Foundation Inc · Terumah Foundation Inc · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · The Basch Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore

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 Josh & Deena Bernstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josh & Deena Bernstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Bais Yaakov of Waterbury Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Yeshiva Gedolah Keren Hatorah Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 100 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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By state
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