How much does Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc give?

Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc reported 22 grants totaling $293,773 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (60%), Education (27%), Health (8%).

Who are Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Montclair Film Festival Inc ($570k), The Hunter College Foundation Inc ($457k), The Montclair Art Museum ($267k).

Does Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURES, Partners for Health Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.

Where is Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc based?

Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc is based in NJ.

Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc

Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc at a glance

· 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.

$294k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

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 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$565kHealth$164kFood & Nutrition$39kCrime & Legal$28kYouth Development$26kHuman Services$13kMembership Benefit$7kOther$0

02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $41k
$10k–50k7 grants · $128k
$50k–250k1 grant · $125k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$691k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MONTCLAIR COMMUNITY PRE-K	$10,000
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS	$10,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART	$10,000
MONTCLAIR FOUNDATION	$7,500
DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION	$5,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY	$5,000
SUCCEED2GETHER	$5,000
ELIZABETH SETON CHILDRENS CENTER	$5,000
HUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY	$5,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$2,750

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 31 repeat orgs$113k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

-11%

Still filing today

48%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalAnimalsOther

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

MF
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $570k · revenue +115%
TH
THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $457k · revenue +102%
THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $267k · revenue +7%

Funded once

NB
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION FUND
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
MS
MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +385%

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.

Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health

New Jersey Citizen Action

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.

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Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montclair Child Development Center Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 56 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/30

Grantees still filing

18/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$918,523Other$606,923Education$461,500Health$64,500Human Services$32,500Crime & Legal$27,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

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.

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.

JOHN J & ROSE CALI FAMILY FOUNDATION co CALI FUTURESNJ24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan V Bershad Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home