· Private foundation
The Marvin Ronald Bernstein 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST HILLS COVENANT CHURCH | $22,625 |
| HAYNES FAMILY OF PROGRAMS | $20,000 |
| THE MASTER'S UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| KENYA COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| BAJA CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $12,250 |
| CHOICES WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND COVENANT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ONTARIO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $10,000 |
| DIGNITYUSA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF THE WORD | $10,000 |
| THE JOSHUA FUND | $10,000 |
| CHINO HILLS CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LIFELINE | $10,000 |
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, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- LILMWS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +76%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INLAND VALLEY INC4× · 2019–2022 · $75k · revenue +217%
- TJTHE JOSHUA FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- LBLIFE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- FUFIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OFone grant, 2020 · $15k
- KIKESHET INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
The los angeles mission breaks the cycle of homelessness and poverty, by stabilizing people in a safe and spiritual environment, connecting them to solutions and walking with them on their journey.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Academy of Hawaiian Arts Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 43 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 LMWS INC ↗
- Who funds Haynes Family of Programs ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INLAND VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds The Master's University and Seminary ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Baja Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds Emanate Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dawn of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROUP ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds ECOCITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds KOREA TOWN OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY USA INC ↗
- Who funds KESHET INC ↗
- Who funds SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL (USA) ↗
- Who funds THE SHEEPFOLD INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Medical Progress ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Health Project DBA Berkeley Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Academy of Hawaiian Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds REACT19 INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Impactassetsinc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Marvin Ronald Bernstein 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 0% 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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