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· Private foundation
THE BERNSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$8k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
2
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$106kArts & Culture$36kMembership Benefit$5kOther$35k
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$68k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HB STUDIO$5,000
- WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST FOUNDATION INC$2,000
- BOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC$1,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$154k · 6 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
9
Total granted
$154k
$27k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+4%
+80%
Still filing today
83%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationMembership BenefitOther
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
- ALARTFUL LEARNING2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +63%
- TATHE ASCAP FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +82%
- TITURTLES INC2× · 2017–2019 · $700 · revenue +4%
Funded once
- CECOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -50%
- SASTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTINGone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
- EPEL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +25644%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc
The foundation's ballet company, american ballet theatre, designated by congressional resolution in 2006 as america's national ballet company, presents the great repertoire of full-length ballets, one-act classics and pioneering new works…
Arts & Culture
2
Herbert Berghof Studio Inc
To provide training and practice in the theatrical performing arts.
Arts & Culture
3
Theatre Artists Studio Inc
The studio is a cooperative of theatre artists founded to provide a vibrant performance space to work in an atmosphere which fosters mutual growth and collaboration through studio affiliation, and to promote creative interaction between…
Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
5
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc
The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global culture.
Arts & Culture
6
Performing Arts Foundation
The theater is a not-for-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for the promotion of activities to encourage interest in and appreciation for the performing arts.
Arts & Culture
7
New York Academy of Art
The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…
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8
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc
To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives
Arts & Culture
9
Boston Center for the Arts Inc
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community.
Arts & Culture
10
Stella Adler Theatre
To provide aspiring actors, writers and directors, etc. with a creative and educational setting deemed necessary for the development of performing arts skills.
Arts & Culture
11
Los Angeles Ballet Inc
To perform outstanding classical and modern ballets that set the standard for dance in los angeles.
Arts & Culture
12
The Theatre Ensemble
Advance public access and appreciation of the performing arts.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Turtles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$105,500Arts & Culture$35,555Other$35,000Membership Benefit$5,000
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 ARTFUL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE H B PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING ↗
- Who funds EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND ↗
- Who funds TURTLES INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA5.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation THE BERNSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTFUL LEARNING.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +63% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 264762684 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ARTFUL LEARNING, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Bernstein Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Bernstein Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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