· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AT EASE HORSEMANSHIP | $5,000 |
| WYO THEATER INC | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WYOMING | $5,000 |
| VISTA 360 INC | $3,000 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $2,500 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH - NO KID HUNGRY | $2,500 |
| AGE WELL MIDDLE TN | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- 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 WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ROANE STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK LATINOS ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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