· Private foundation
Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k35 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kennedy Center | $50,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $30,000 |
| National Constitution Center | $25,000 |
| Leo Bernstein Hebrew Academy | $25,000 |
| Hirshorn Museum | $20,000 |
| American Committee For The Weizmann Institute Of S | $20,000 |
| GOODProjects | $20,000 |
| Opendor Media | $20,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $15,000 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee | $15,000 |
| Washington Hebrew Congregation | $15,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA Inc | $15,000 |
| Atlas Performing Arts Center | $13,049 |
| The Brigid Alliance | $12,500 |
| Medstar Georgetown University Hospital | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +80% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
64 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2022, 35 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER5× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +173%
- SISIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $101k · revenue +26%
- KVKOLLEL VILNA6× · 2017–2022 · $78k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WWWHEN WE ALL VOTEone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue 0%
- SFS&R Foundationone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NGNational Gallery of Artgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +69%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
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…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
How this is measured
99 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. 99 of the 161 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 NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
- Who funds KOLLEL VILNA ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Georgetown Heritage ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOMING AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MESORAH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WE WANT THE LAND COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Duber Family Foundation · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · S & R Foundation · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joshua M Freeman Foundation: 20% of income from government
- Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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