· Private foundation
The Paula and William Bernstein Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k70 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $327k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $200,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $76,800 |
| CLEO PARKER ROBINSON DANCE | $50,000 |
| DENVER INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS - PEACS | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CONGREGATION HAR HASHEM | $28,000 |
| JEWISH COLORADO | $26,800 |
| COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN BOARD OF PYSCHOANALYSIS | $10,000 |
| ADL MOUNTAIN STATES REGION | $10,000 |
| WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN | $8,500 |
| IMAGINE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| DENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
93 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWellesley College6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- TBTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $143k · revenue +64%
- PBPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITY DR ALAN YEUNGone grant, 2020 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +137%
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -34%
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
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 120 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 Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds THE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION COLORADO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BOARD OF PSYCHOANALYSIS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVANCED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ENERGY OUTREACH COLORADO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds LUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD ↗
- Who funds ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Western Union Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Mesdag Family Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Brady Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paula and William Bernstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paula and William Bernstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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