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The Bernstein Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $26,088 |
| ARTS FUND | $23,500 |
| TEENTIX | $14,984 |
| TEMPLE HIRSCH SINAI | $10,412 |
| KEMP MILL SYNAGOGUE | $5,128 |
| UW KUOW FUND | $5,084 |
| RECOVERY CAF | $5,000 |
| UNLEASH THE BRILLIANCE | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,041 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| EARTH FUND | $2,500 |
| DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING | $2,500 |
| JGIVE - FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND | $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 (FY21–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +85% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 13 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE5× · 2019–2024 · $251k · revenue +121%
- ACA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $104k · revenue +236%
- AARTSFUND4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ATACT THEATERone grant, 2019 · $57k
- ATACT THEATRE DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2019 · $25k
- JFJEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Tacoma Art Museum transforms our communities by sharing art that inspires broader perspectives and cultivates a compassionate future
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
A Seattle-based improv theater with the mission to foster creativity, build community, and inspire personal growth through the art of comedy.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The schack art center offers inclusive and accessible arts programming that fosters creativity, engages the community and cultivates partnerships to enrich lives through the transformative power of the arts.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
TPS works to foster and advocate for a robust and equitable theatre community in the Puget Sound Region.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
The mission of the Washington Center is to inspire audiences and artists of all ages through live performances, enriching the vibrancy of our community. The Washington center for the performing arts was created from a belief that a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artsfund and the most unlike its peers is Unleash the Brilliance. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 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.
41 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. 41 of the 83 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds TEENTIX ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds Unleash the Brilliance ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING ↗
- Who funds SHUNPIKE ↗
- Who funds IMMANUEL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds POTTERY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GAGE ACADEMY OF ART ↗
- Who funds EARTH CREATIVE ↗
- Who funds Artist Trust ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · The Conru Foundation · The Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Grousemont Foundation · Klorfine Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Loeb Charitable Foundation · Alhadeff Family Charitable 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 Bernstein 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.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% 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.
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