Wyoming · Private foundation
The Bernard Family 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.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Bernard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $105k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $103k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $93k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $103k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $150k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $82k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $123k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $99k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Jewish Awareness | $279,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wyoming Wildlife Federation | $52,650 | 9 | 3% |
| Eagle's Nest Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Colorado Rocky Mountain School Inc | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Proclaiming Justice to the Nations Inc | $17,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hospital Hospitality House Corporation | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Saddle Up | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| P E R C Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Akiva School | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bernard Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The John and Heidi Hassenfeld Family Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bernard Family Foundation
- How much does The Bernard Family Foundation give?
- The Bernard Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $109,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bernard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Arts & Culture (19%), Animals (14%).
- Who are The Bernard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Jewish Awareness ($279k), Tennessee Wildlife Resources Foundation Inc ($85k), Wyoming Wildlife Federation ($53k).
- Does The Bernard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bernard Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bernard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation, Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation.
- Where is The Bernard Family Foundation based?
- The Bernard Family Foundation is based in WY.
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