· Private foundation
The Bernstein Family Foundation Inc F/K/A Bernstein Education Through Arts
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| BOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALARTFUL LEARNING INC2× · 2017–2018 · $105k · revenue +63%
- THTHE H B PLAYWRIGHTS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
- WGWRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA EAST FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CECOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -31%
- EPEL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue ×2,313
- SASTELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTINGone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
Hb studio, founded in 1945 by herbert berghof and uta hagen, is an artistic home for actors, playwrights and directors at every level of achievement. we provide a haven for working professionals, free from commercial pressures. (continued…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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…
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…
Kaufman music center stimulates appreciation of and participation in music through music performance and education in ways that awaken creativity, advance innovation, and create a sense of wonder among performers, students, teachers, and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 ARTFUL LEARNING INC ↗
- 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 EL PASO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Turtles Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernstein Family Foundation Inc F/K/A Bernstein Education Through Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernstein Family Foundation Inc F/K/A Bernstein Education Through Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston String Academy Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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