Berenstein Family Foundation
Sioux City, IA · EIN 42-1461615. Reported 106 grants totalling $84,896 to 59 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Berenstein Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $150 and $1,000; the smallest was $25 and the largest $6,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Beth Shalom | Sioux City, IA | $14,925 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sioux City Symphony | Sioux City, IA | $11,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Siouxland Community Foundation | Sioux City, IA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| First Presbyterian Church | Sioux City, IA | $7,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $5,400 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| United Way | Sioux City, IA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Safe Place | Sioux City, IA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $2,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Action of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| First Presbyterian | Sioux City, IA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hospice of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| June E Nylen Cancer Center | Sioux City, IA | $2,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Girls Inc | Sioux City, IA | $1,550 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Friendship House | Sioux City, IA | $1,486 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sioux City Art Center | Sioux City, IA | $1,400 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Unity Point Foundation | Sioux City, IA | $1,300 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Welcome Home | Sioux City, IA | $1,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Places | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Saturday in the Park | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tolerance Week | Sioux City, IA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Siouxland Food Bank | Sioux City, IA | $750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kwit | Sioux City, IA | $700 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Hope Street of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $600 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Siouxland Senior Center | Sioux City, IA | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Food Bank of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Heartland Counseling | South Sioux City, NE | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Holocaust Museum | Washington DC, WA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hope Street House | Sioux City, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Noah's Hope | Sioux City, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Siouxland Cares | Sioux City, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Special Olympics | Grimes, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Luke's Foundation | Sioux City, IA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iowa Special Olympics | Grimes, IA | $450 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Iowa Public Television | Johnston, IA | $350 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Bike Sux | Sioux City, IA | $300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Kwit - Friends of Fm 90 | Sioux City, IA | $300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Siouxland Center for Active Generations | Sioux City, IA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Siouxland Officials Assn | Le Mars, IA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Warming Shelter | Sioux City, IA | $270 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Alzheimer's of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Club | Sioux City, IA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lila Mae's House | Sioux City, IA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Noah's Hope Animal Rescue | Sioux City, IA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Siouxland Mental Health | Sioux City, IA | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Women Aware | Sioux City, IA | $165 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Winnebago Health Foundation | Winnebago, NE | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Home | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Siouxland | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Children's Miracle Network | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Crittenton Center | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mary Treglia | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mid Step Services | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| NAACP | Sioux City, ID | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Proteus | Fort Dodge, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sioux City Gospel Mission | Sioux City, IA | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rosecrance Foundation | Sioux City, IA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sunrise Retirement | Sioux City, IA | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hadassah Donor | Sioux City, IA | $25 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sd Parks Foundation | Pierre, SD | $25 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
23 of 59 (39%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 51%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 35 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 33 | $17,225 | $300 |
| 2022 | 19 | $16,575 | $500 |
| 2023 | 17 | $17,426 | $500 |
| 2024 | 14 | $16,850 | $550 |
| 2025 | 23 | $16,820 | $500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in Iowa. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Iowa.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Berenstein Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 310 Pelletier Dr, Sioux City, IA, 51104. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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