Illinois · Private foundation
The Howard B Bernick Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $750k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $305,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Howard B Bernick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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 | 22 | $738k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $663k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $899k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $766k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $632k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $985k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $1,505,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cast Water Safety Foundation | $595,000 | 6 | 19% |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | $218,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc | $141,800 | 4 | 1% |
| Palm Beach Civic Association Inc | $119,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($914k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Howard B Bernick 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: Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Lavin Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Howard B Bernick Foundation
- How much does The Howard B Bernick Foundation give?
- The Howard B Bernick Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $749,910 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Howard B Bernick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Education (13%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Howard B Bernick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($1.5M), Cast Water Safety Foundation ($595k), Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ($219k).
- Does The Howard B Bernick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Howard B Bernick Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Howard B Bernick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Bernick Family Foundation, Lavin Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is The Howard B Bernick Foundation based?
- The Howard B Bernick Foundation is based in IL.
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