How much does Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust give?

Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust reported 41 grants totaling $357,960 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (21%), Environment (19%), Religion (17%).

Who are Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Arava the Institute Ltd ($363k), Jewish Family Service ($250k), Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc ($232k).

Does Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust 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 Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation, The Ravitz Foundation.

Where is Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust based?

Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust is based in MI.

Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust

Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust

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.

$358k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$453kEnvironment$412kReligion$374kHuman Services$260kCivil Rights$247kHealth$103kPhilanthropy$88kEmployment$85kOther$0

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $67k
$10k–50k6 grants · $166k
$50k–250k2 grants · $125k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF THE ARAVA INSTITUTE	$75,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE	$50,000
AVODAH - THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC	$48,500
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC	$35,000
SCHECHTER INSTITUTE OF JEWISH STUDIES INC	$35,000
JARC	$22,000
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES	$15,000
HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CNTR FOR JEWISH ARAB EDU IN ISRAEL	$10,000
TIKKUN HAYAM REPAIR THE SEA INC	$8,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT	$7,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE	$5,000
YAD EZRA	$5,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND	$3,000
FOOD GATHERERS	$3,000
JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $326k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 51 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+6%

Still filing today

76%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

FO
FRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD
8× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +28%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +26%
AT
AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +107%

Funded once

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS DENTAL VOLUNTEERS FOR ISRAEL
one grant, 2021 · $15k
CT
CONGREGATION T CHIYAH
one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

04Its field

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 Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy

American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Jewish Voters Unite Inc

The jewish voters unite's mission is to educate and mobilize jewish communities to participate in every election and make their voices heard at the polls.

Religion

The Jewish Federation of Nwi Inc

Enriching jewish life in northwest indiana, in israel and around the world through service, programming, advocacy and fundraising.

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Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement

Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Summer in the City. 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

68 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. 68 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/68

Grantees still filing

44/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$674,429Environment$396,000Human Services$325,850Philanthropy$251,661International$242,600Community Improvement$233,100Employment$85,000

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.

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.

United Jewish FoundationMI29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Jewish Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Ravitz Foundation · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Woll-Yellin Family Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Driker Family Foundation · The Jerold and Ellen Minkin Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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