New York · Private foundation
The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein 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.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,550
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $67,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $500k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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 | 24 | $205k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $173k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $175k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $134k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $109k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $85k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $87k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $56k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westchester Day School | $177,868 | 9 | n/a |
| Sharsheret Inc | $153,696 | 9 | 0% |
| Blev Echad | $40,400 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Sanhedria Jerusalem Inc | $30,969 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $30,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chai Lifeline Inc | $14,780 | 7 | 0% |
| National Jewish Outreach Program In | $14,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The New York Bar Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($567k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · The Ojc Fund · The Mermelstein Foundation · Louis & Martha Silver Foundation Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · National Philanthropic Trust · Hortley G Leblang Charitable Foundation · Lisa & Michael Leffell Foundation · M D Katz Foundation Inc · Ahba Inc
How this is measured
Compare The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation with peer funders
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About The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation
- How much does The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation give?
- The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $204,630 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Education (21%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westchester Day School ($178k), Sharsheret Inc ($154k), Blev Echad ($40k).
- Does The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fjc, The Ojc Fund.
- Where is The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation based?
- The Stanley & Vivian Bernstein Foundation is based in NY.
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