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The Saul and Leslie Bernstein Family Foundation Inc

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.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE SAUL AND LESLIE BERNSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S PORTLAND$40,000
FJC-A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS$30,000
MENDING KIDS$30,000
MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS WITH BLOOD DISORDERS$20,000
HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORG OF AMERICA$20,000
NETIVOT$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
THE JESTER & PHARLEY PHUND$10,000
JEWISH LEARNING INITIATIVE ON CAMPUS$10,000
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND$5,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE JESTER & PHARLEY PHUND: $10k → 14%THE JESTER & PARLEY PHUND: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$166k · 8 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$166k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-10%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
HealthCivil RightsInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MK
    Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +14%
  • FF
    Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +49%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -51%
  • YN
    YESHIVAT NETIVOT MONTESSORI INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Friends of Jewish Hospitals and Education Centers of Brazil Inc
Philanthropy
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center

To promote and support the rambam health care campus-the premier medical center in northern israel.

International
7
American Friends of Herzog Hospital Inc

The organization was formed to provide financial support to fund services, capital projects, clinical research, and purchase of new equipment for herzog hospital in jerusalem, which is the 3rd largest hospital in jerusalem and is israel's…

Health
8
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
9
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
10
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
American Jewish Medical Association

Ajma advocates to address contemporary issues affecting our members and society, including recently rising incidents of antisemitism and anti-zionism that impact the workplace and patient care. we leverage our unified voice to stand…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Magen David Adom and the most unlike its peers is Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $45,000 · OtherMending Kids International dba Mending KidsSHRINERS CHILDREN'S PORTLAND — $40,000 · OtherSHRINERS CHILDREN'S PORTLANDNETIVOT — $21,000 · OtherNETIVOTIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH LEARNING INITIATIVE ON CAMPUS — $15,000 · OtherJEWISH LEARNING INITIATIVE ON CAMPUSZAKA — $10,000 · OtherZAKAWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS — $10,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS+3 more — $15,000 · Other+3 moreFoundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders — $25,000 · HealthFoundation for Wome…THE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · HealthTHE MILTON S HERSHE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $5,000 · HealthFREE CLINIC OF SOUT…FJC — $55,000 · Crime & LegalFJCANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFA…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementThe Jester & Pharley Phund — $15,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC — $5,000 · International
Other$176,000Health$65,000Crime & Legal$55,000Civil Rights$30,000Community Improvement$20,000Human Services$15,000International$11,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFJC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFoundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders — $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jester & Pharley Phund — $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF PEACE OF MIND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVAT NETIVOT MONTESSORI INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Saul and Leslie Bernstein Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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