New York · Private foundation
The Bill Bernbach Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $529k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Bill Bernbach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $48k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $56k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $80k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $57k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $88k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Ann's School | $120,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Oceana Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bedford Playhouse Inc | $32,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Casita Maria Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Apollo Pact Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
| The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Musician Treatment Foundation of Austin Texas Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($142k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bill Bernbach Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About The Bill Bernbach Foundation
- How much does The Bill Bernbach Foundation give?
- The Bill Bernbach Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $46,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Bill Bernbach Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Bill Bernbach Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saint Ann's School ($120k), Oceana Inc ($60k), Bedford Playhouse Inc ($33k).
- Does The Bill Bernbach Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bill Bernbach Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bill Bernbach Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Bessemer Giving Fund.
- Where is The Bill Bernbach Foundation based?
- The Bill Bernbach Foundation is based in NY.
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