· Private foundation
The Berstein 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $208,000 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $100,000 |
| BETHANNA CO KAREN HAMILTON | $100,000 |
| GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA | $90,000 |
| JULES E MASTBAUM HIGH SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| TEACH PLUS | $85,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $85,000 |
| LANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA | $75,000 |
| ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $75,000 |
| GIRARD ACADEMIC MUSIC PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| WB HIGH SCHOOL | $70,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF CARVER CO DARRYL JOHNSON | $70,000 |
| WRITERS MATTER | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $755k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those 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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BPBIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA4× · 2021–2024 · $361k · revenue +8%
TEACH PLUS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $335k · revenue +68%- GPGRADUATE PHILADELPHIA4× · 2021–2024 · $290k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA SWEETS FOUNDATION PENN MEDone grant, 2020 · $250k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $198k
- BBETHANNAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $133k · revenue +124%
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.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 71 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BIG PICTURE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CODED BY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds WRITERS MATTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BLACK EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds BETHANNA ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNISTREAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION PHILA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Main Line Hospitals Inc ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Berstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Berstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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