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The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Religion$11kArts & Culture$3kHealth$1kEducation$280Human Services$250Environment$100Public Benefit$100Food & Nutrition$50Other$0
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k5 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$20,000
INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY$10,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$2,500
HEALING ODYSSEY$1,000
NORTHWEST CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS INSTITUTE$500
REFORM TEMPLE OF LAGUNA WOODS$80
ORT AMERICA INC$60
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ABILITY FIRST: $50 → 14%THE FOUNDATION OF LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE: $50 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your 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
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
4
Clal-the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Inc

A leading advocate for pluralism and diversity, clal offers jewish wisdom that enhances public life, deepens civic engagement and cultivates personal growth.

Religion
5
Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc

Simon wiesenthal center, inc. (the center) is a global jewish human rights activist organization that confronts anti-semitism, hate, stands with israel, defends the safety of jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the holocaust for…

Arts & Culture
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
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Repair the World

Repair the world mobilizes jews and their communities to take action to pursue a more just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service. we believe service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing jewish community and an…

Community Improvement
10
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
11
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
12
Irvine Hebrew Day School

Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healing Odyssey Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+14 more — $960 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC — $10,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY…Reform Temple of Laguna Woods — $757 · ReligionReform Temple of Laguna Woods+1 more — $50 · ReligionFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureFACING HI…NORTHWEST CREATIVE & EXPRESSIVE ARTS INSTITUTE — $500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST…+1 more — $50 · Arts & CultureHEALING ODYSSEY INC — $1,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $70 · EducationPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $50 · EducationTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $100 · EnvironmentABILITYFIRST — $50 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION OF LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE — $50 · Human ServicesPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $50 · Public Benefit
Other$20,960Religion$10,807Arts & Culture$3,050Health$1,000Education$120Environment$100Human Services$100Public Benefit$50

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ODYSSEY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetReform Temple of Laguna Woods — $757 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Symphony — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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-Maslansky Fund 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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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    How do I get to The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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