· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| EARTH FUND | $2,500 |
| JGIVE - FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| DEVELOPMENT IN GARDENING | $2,500 |
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 (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. 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 +85% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 83 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 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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Glass ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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