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Paul Stanford Bernhard Foundation at a glance

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Paul Stanford Bernhard Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$129k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$119kPublic Benefit$65kEnvironment$62kHuman Services$23kYouth Development$21kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$12kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$72,000
SOS OUTREACH$12,000
ALMA BACKYARD FARMS$12,000
HEAL THE BAY$11,000
WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES$11,000
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$11,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $11k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$286k · 7 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$286k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+94%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    8× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +78%
  • WW
    WILDERNESS WORKSHOP
    6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +123%
  • WF
    Wayfinder Family Services
    4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • ES
    East Side Riders Bike Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +139%
  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • WW
    WILDERNESS WORKSHOP FOR LATINO OUTREACH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
2
Southern California Streets Initiative

California Streets Initiative is a non-profit that practices solutions journalism at its five news websites listed above to educate inform and empower its readers.

Arts & Culture
3
California Walks

Statewide voice for pedestrian safety and healthy, walkable communities for people of all ages and abilities. California Walks partners with state agencies, community-based organizations and residents.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
5
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
6
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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7
California Life Sciences Association

Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.

Community Improvement
8
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
9
Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River La

Engage.Protect.Enhance.Weareonamissiontobringpeople,water,andnaturetogetherwhilepursuingasustainablerevitalization of the Los Angeles River corridor.

Community Improvement
10
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles

To provide a socio-economically, culturally and racially diverse community of students in the heart of Los Angeles with an intellectually challenging experiential learning environment that develops each individual student's confidence,…

Education
11
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

—
12
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Outreach; the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $111,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesLife Sail Inc: $65,000 · Public BenefitLife Sail IncWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $41,000 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOPWILDERNESS WORKSHOP FOR LATINO OUTREACH PROGRAM: $5,000 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOP FOR …BOYS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC: $4,000 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF SANTA MONIC…UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION - PERLOFF MUSIC THERAPY: $2,500 · OtherALMA BACKYARD FARM: $12,000 · OtherALMA BACKYARD FARMSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $4,000 · OtherSCHOOL ON WHEELS INCAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR T…Wayfinder Family Services: $22,500 · Human ServicesWayfinder…CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…SOS OUTREACH: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsEast Side Riders Bike Club: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHEAL THE BAY: $13,500 · EnvironmentLos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $2,000 · EnvironmentSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 · Youth Development
Health$111,500Public Benefit$65,000Other$72,500Human Services$27,500Recreation & Sports$22,000Environment$15,500Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $111,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLife Sail Inc: $65,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $41,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHALOM INSTITUTE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Annenberg Foundat…California Community …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Annenberg FoundationPA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Paul Stanford Bernhard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Stanford Bernhard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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