Massachusetts · Private foundation
Benali 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.
- $77k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Benali Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 5 | $73k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $69k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $55k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $15k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wellspring House Inc | $21,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Vennue Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Zakat Foundation of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $4,134 | 3 | 0% |
| Oakcliff Sailing Incorporated | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $2,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn | $1,520 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc | $1,013 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $90,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wellspring House Inc | $21,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Vennue Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Zakat Foundation of America | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $4,134 | 3 | 0% |
| Oakcliff Sailing Incorporated | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $2,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn | $1,520 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $1,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc | $1,013 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant House | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $975 | 1 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benali 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Benali Foundation
- How much does Benali Foundation give?
- Benali Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $76,667 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Benali Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (46%), Health (30%), Employment (7%).
- Who are Benali Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation ($90k), Wellspring House Inc ($22k), Vennue Foundation ($10k).
- Does Benali Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benali 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 Benali Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Benali Foundation based?
- Benali Foundation is based in MA.
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