· Private foundation
The Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Fdn
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS | $20,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $20,000 |
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $11,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME | $10,790 |
| NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $10,000 |
| AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY DC | $10,000 |
| TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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 +8% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- TPTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY3× · 2022–2024 · $193k · revenue +58%
- NGNational Gallery of Art3× · 2022–2024 · $102k · revenue +103%
- SMSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- NJNATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
- NWNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -19%
- ACATLANTIC CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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…
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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
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.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 109 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 THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE MEMORIAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Bay ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUE GROUND HOUSING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ARTS FOUNDATION AT NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DC ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
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: 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
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 & Sarah Gewirz Fdn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.