· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD OF NASHVILLE | $37,000 |
| NEW MUSEUM AT BRADFORD BRINTON | $19,000 |
| WYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WYO THEATER INC | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WYOMING | $5,000 |
| AT EASE HORSEMANSHIP | $5,000 |
| VISTA 360 INC | $3,000 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH - NO KID HUNGRY | $2,500 |
| THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| AGE WELL MIDDLE TN | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- WWWYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +218%
- ENEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +10%
- CRCOLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF CHABADone grant, 2024 · $10k
- GZGROUND ZERO 360 INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +324%
- BHBIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the state collaborative on reforming education (score) is to catalyze transformative change in tennessee education so that all students can achieve success. score is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan institution,…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
The national environmental education and training foundation, doing business as neef, is the nation's leading organization in lifelong environmental learning, creating opportunities for people to experience and learn about the environment…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
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.
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wren Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 51 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 TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds WYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PROCLAIMING JUSTICE TO THE NATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds AKIVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds GROUND ZERO 360 INC ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FERRIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF GREATER NASHVILLE DBA AGE WELL MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
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: 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
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 The Bernard Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.