· Private foundation
The Bernhill Fund
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 $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEO BAECK INSTITUTE | $35,000 |
| THE WINSTON CHURCHILL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $20,000 |
| THE INNOCENCE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS | $10,000 |
| THE GIFT OF HOPE USA FDN | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $2,500 |
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, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LBLEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +198%
- SISTUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +43%
- TNTHE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +21%
Funded once
WNETone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -9%- TOTHE OBERMEYER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- THTHE HISTORY CHURCHILL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.
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…
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 brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
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."
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 152 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 LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMWORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Vienna Philharmonic Society ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION 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: Jewish Communal Fund · J & Ar Foundation · Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ag Foundation · The William O & Carole P Bailey Family 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 Bernhill Fund 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.
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