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The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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
9
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc; 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 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. 19 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAge Well Senior Services Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Symphony: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF LAGUNA WOODS VILLAGE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernstein-Maslansky Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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