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Samuel & Gussie Bernstein 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.

$120k
Granted FY2017
4
Itemized grants FY2017
3
Organizations funded FY2017
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Itemized, FY2017
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$5,000
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
31% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$10kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jackson Recovery Centers Inc$5,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation

How much does Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation give?
Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation reported 4 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $120,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Health (1%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Jackson Recovery Centers Inc ($5k).
Does Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation based?
Samuel & Gussie Bernstein Foundation is based in IA.

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 3 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $111k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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