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The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$492k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
59
Grants FY2024
63
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,000
Organizations funded a year
63 to 66
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$6.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving57$491k19%
FY202363$535k44%
FY202266$599kn/a
95% 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$680kHealth$299kEducation$214kReligion$83kInternational$73kEnvironment$60kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Benefit$49kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Preservation Society of Newport County$193,00030%
National Gallery of Art$102,00030%
Promise Fund of Florida Inc$86,23432%
Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation$61,00030%
The Society of the Four Arts Inc$50,00030%
National Jewish Policy Center$50,00015%
Naval War College Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation$44,9003n/a
US Naval Academy Foundation Inc$43,00030%
Aquidneck Island Land Trust$35,00031%
Newport Hospital Foundation$32,50031%
The Heritage Foundation$28,50030%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$25,02520%
International Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated$21,91530%
Garden of Remembrance Memorial Park Inc$21,0003n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$20,50030%
Church Community Housing Corporation$20,00010%
Save The Bay$20,00011%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$20,00010%
True Ground Housing Partners Inc$20,00010%
Touro Synagogue Foundation$17,00033%
Rhode Island Arts Foundation at Newport$16,20021%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$13,00030%
Palm Beach Civic Association Inc$12,00030%
South Florida Pbs Inc$11,00020%
Woodson Center$11,00030%
Opportunity DC$10,00012%
The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust$10,00020%
Newport Art Museum and Art Association$7,00030%
Trust for the National Mall$5,00010%
Tax Foundation$5,00010%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc$5,00010%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$5,00030%
Anti-Defamation League$4,30020%
Avalon Theatre Project Inc$4,00020%
Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc$4,00020%
Friends of the Jewish Chapel Inc$3,50031%
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum$2,11030%
American Jewish Committee$2,00020%
The Newport Tree Conservancy$2,00020%
The American-Scandinavian Foundation$2,00010%
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$1,80010%
Autism Speaks Inc$1,75030%
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc$1,50020%
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc$1,50010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$1,50020%
Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc$1,50020%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$1,25020%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$1,00010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Save the Bay Inc$1,00010%
Freedomworks Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Center for Creative Education Inc$1,00010%
Palisades Community Association$1,00020%
Montgomery College Foundation$1,00010%
Fabnewport Inc$1,00010%
Conservative Partnership Institute$80010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$75010%
Audrain Automobile Museum Inc$50010%
Holderness School$50010%
Macarthur Beautification Group$50012%
Judicial Watch Inc$50010%
Denison University$25010%
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund$25010%
Bnai Brith International$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($506k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Preservation Society of Newport County: $193,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $102,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPromise Fund of Florida Inc: $86,234 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSibley Memorial Hospital Foundation: $61,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Jewish Policy Center: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNaval War College Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUS Naval Academy Foundation Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAquidneck Island Land Trust: $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $32,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $25,025 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Tennis Hall of Fame Incorporated: $21,915 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChurch Community Housing Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Bay: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrue Ground Housing Partners Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTouro Synagogue Foundation: $17,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetRhode Island Arts Foundation at Newport: $16,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWoodson Center: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity DC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNewport Art Museum and Art Association: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTrust for the National Mall: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTax Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $4,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAvalon Theatre Project Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Jewish Chapel Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $2,110 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Newport Tree Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe American-Scandinavian Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Hebrew University Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Johns Hopkins Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Bay Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Van Beuren Charitable Foundation IncNY28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · The Sand Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation · Bazarsky Family Foundation · The de Ramel Foundation · Amica Companies 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.

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About The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn

How much does The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn give?
The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn reported 59 grants totaling $492,140 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 66 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (14%), Health (6%), Education (5%).
Who are The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Preservation Society of Newport County ($193k), National Gallery of Art ($102k), Promise Fund of Florida Inc ($86k).
Does The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust.
Where is The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn based?
The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn is based in DC.

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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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