· Private foundation
Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL | $125,000 |
| MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| PAGE 73 PRODUCTIONS | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE | $12,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| JAZZ HOUSE KIDS | $10,000 |
| MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K | $10,000 |
| MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SUCCEED2GETHER | $5,000 |
| DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY | $5,000 |
| HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MFMONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $570k · revenue +115%
- THTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $457k · revenue +102%
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NBNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
- MSMT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +385%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Child Development Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE OF MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR JUSTICE IN ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON PEDIATRIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND ↗
- Who funds Montclair Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR PBA LOCAL #53 INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCEED2GETHER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION ↗
- Who funds DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR LOCAL NONPROFIT NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT ↗
- Who funds ARTS UNBOUND INC ↗
- Who funds Push To Walk a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES · Partners for Health Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Sonder Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Silver Family Foundation Inc · Schumann Fund for New Jersey Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · David Bershad Family Foundation Inc · The Scholl Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ
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 organization Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Montclair Child Development Center Inc — 70% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
- Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
- Montclair Film Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Montclair Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit — 0% of income from government
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 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.