· Private foundation
The Howard B Bernick Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $300,000 |
| CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY | $33,000 |
| THE FIELD MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE INNOVATE | $25,000 |
| PALM BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $22,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER | $12,500 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $6,500 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
- TOTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $186k · revenue +54%
- FMFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY5× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CNCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IHIL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2021 · $43k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cast Water Safety Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 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. 53 of the 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CAST WATER SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach Civic Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
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.
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
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 Howard B Bernick Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Foundcare Inc — 6% of income from government
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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