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Bella S & Benjamin H Garb 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.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Animals$55kEmployment$30kHousing & Shelter$22kCrime & Legal$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kHealth$13kInternational$10kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samaritan's Purse$10,000
Tech Impact$10,000
Prison Education Project$10,000
Womens Animal Center$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Aark Wildlife Rehabilitation: $5k → 6%Opportunity House: $6k → 11%Tech Impact: $10k → 22%Brooks Mission: $5k → 7%Metropolitan Opera: $1k → 17%World Central Kitchen: $4k → 14%The Prison Education Project: $10k → 11%Planned Parenthood of St Louis: $3k → 21%Samaritan's Purse: $10k → 21%Habitat for Humanity: $10k → 14%Trenton Area Soup Kitchen: $2k → 11%ARK Wildlife Rehabiliation: $2k → 6%Brooksy's Mission Inc: $5k → 7%World Central Kitchen: $10k → 14%Prison Education Project: $10k → 11%Metro High PTO Panther Pride: $3k → 21%Habitat for Humanity of Chicago: $6k → 14%Greenwood House: $3k → 11%Women's Animal Center: $10k → 6%Prison Performing Arts: $500 → 21%In These Times: $3k → 14%Womens Animal Center: $10k → 6%Womens Humane Society: $10k → 6%Womens Humane Society: $10k → 6%Humane Society: $10k → 6%Brookline Lab Rescue Inc: $5k → 6%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 95% of Bella S & Benjamin H Garb Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bella S & Benjamin H Garb Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$114k · 5 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$114k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+20%

Still filing today

60%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterAnimalsHealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalOther

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

  • WH
    WOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +64%
  • TI
    TECH IMPACT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HS
    Humane Society
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • OH
    OPPORTUNITY HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +20%

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
Habitat for Humanity Inc

Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

2
Project Home

The mission of the project home community is to empower adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, to alleviate the underlying causes of poverty, and to enable all of us to attain our fullest potential…

Human Services
3
Habitat for Humanity of Wake County Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of wake county brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

4
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
5
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Palm Beach County

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

6
Habitat for Humanity of Washington and Dodge Counties Wisconsin Inc

Habitat for humanity of washington dodge counties, wisconsin, inc. is a locally-run affiliate of habitat for humanity international, a nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry. habitat for humanity works in partnership with people…

7
Samaritan House Inc

Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.

Housing & Shelter
8
The Bronx Parent Housing Network Inc

Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…

Human Services
9
World Hunger Relief Institute

World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.

International
10
Pact Institute

Pact institute works to achieve strategic objectives that improve the lives of people around the world who are poor and marginalized through innovation, the exploration of new approaches and partnerships, and funding diversification. it is…

11
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…

Human Services
12
Partnership Housing Inc

Partnership housing, inc. brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity House and the most unlike its peers is Brookys Mission Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Prison Education Project — $20,000 · OtherPrison Education ProjectHabitat for Humanity — $10,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityHumane Society — $10,000 · OtherHumane SocietyIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBrookline Lab Rescue Inc — $5,000 · OtherBrookline Lab Rescue IncIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherMetro High PTO Panther Pride — $3,000 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of St Louis — $2,500 · OtherGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED — $2,500 · OtherTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $2,400 · Other+3 more — $3,500 · OtherWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $40,000 · AnimalsWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY F…TECH IMPACT — $30,000 · EducationTECH IMPACTWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,600 · InternationalOPPORTUNITY HOUSE — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 · ReligionBROOKYS MISSION LTD — $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$66,900Animals$40,000Education$30,000International$13,600Housing & Shelter$12,000Religion$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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 budgetWOMEN'S HUMANE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTECH IMPACT — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKYS MISSION LTD — $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHICAGO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover 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 Bella S & Benjamin H Garb 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 20 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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