· Private foundation
The W & R Bernheimer 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 $10k37 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP | $10,000 |
| BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE | $5,500 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NY | $3,500 |
| CENTER FOR BIODIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MAEDAY RESCUE | $2,000 |
| FRESHMAN FRESH START | $1,575 |
| SISTER JOSE WOMEN'S CENTER | $1,500 |
| KCRW | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUS | $1,300 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $1,100 |
| ST LOUIS CANCER AWARENESS | $1,000 |
| OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
54 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 15 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDISCALCED INC2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +7%
Williams College2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +18%- SJSister Jose Women's Center2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- WCWILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM BUILDINGone grant, 2024 · $3k
- ALARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NYone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 134 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 DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRESHMAN FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAEDAY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
- Who funds NEWTON AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CLASSICAL GUITAR ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The W & R Bernheimer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The W & R Bernheimer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Newton at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Public Library Association of Easthampton: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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