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The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn at a glance

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The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$492k
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $182k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $236k
$1,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY$112,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS$74,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$50,000
SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSP FOUNDATION$30,000
REDWOOD LIBRARY$20,200
SAVE THE BAY$20,000
TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS$20,000
ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION$11,000
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME$10,790
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
GARDEN OF REMEMBERANCE MEMORIAL PARK$10,000
NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
OPPORTUNITY DC$10,000
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$10,000
TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPPORTUNITY DC: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 54 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
40

Total granted

$1.2M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

63%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TP
    THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $193k · revenue +58%
  • NG
    National Gallery of Art
    3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +147%
  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • NJ
    NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • NW
    NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +111%
  • AC
    ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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

66 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. 66 of the 109 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
50/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNEDY CENTER: $74,500 · OtherKENNEDY CENTERKIWANIS CLUB OF WAHINGTON: $74,450 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF WAHINGTONJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $74,000 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE ARTSJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $51,000 · OtherJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATION: $44,900 · OtherADAS ISRAEL HEBREW CONGREGATIONREDWOOD LIBRARY: $36,200 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $28,500 · Other+57 more: $313,622 · Other+57 moreTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $193,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF N…National Gallery of Art: $102,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of ArtThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts …NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT: $16,200 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $49,110 · Arts & Culture+9 morePROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC: $86,234 · HealthPROMISE FUND…SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $61,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMOR…Newport Hospital Foundation: $32,500 · HealthNewport Hosp…+3 more: $4,250 · HealthNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · Education+8 more: $7,550 · EducationNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER: $50,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $20,500 · International+2 more: $3,800 · InternationalAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $35,000 · EnvironmentSave The Bay: $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Newport Tree Conservancy: $2,000 · Environment+3 more: $2,750 · EnvironmentTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $25,025 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$753,172Arts & Culture$430,310Health$183,984Education$100,550International$74,300Environment$59,750Philanthropy$51,025

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

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 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 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.

Van Beuren Charitable…The Rhode Island Comm…Frederick Henry Princ…Gruben Charitable Fou…Ejmp Fund for Philant…Alletta Morris McBean…The Sand FoundationHamilton Family Found…The Anne and David B …Bazarsky Family Found…The de Ramel Foundati…Amica Companies Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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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