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Benali Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$148kHealth$96kEmployment$22kEducation$11kScience & Tech$10kPhilanthropy$7kRecreation & Sports$6kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $66k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$30,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,833
VENNUE FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$4,200
BROWN UNIVERSITY$4,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,634
02The need
03

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 (FY20–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $11k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $700 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $400 → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $400 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
WV
MD
TN
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 16 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$277k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+39%

Still filing today

44%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +4%
  • WELLSPRING HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +107%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TZ
    THE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • OS
    OAKCLIFF SAILING INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -9%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +57%
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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
United Nations International School

Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…

Education
6
Harvard Global Research and Support Services Inc

The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. specifically, the corporation has been formed for the…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
10
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $51,009 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALPARTNERS IN HEALTH FOR UGHE MISSION IN RWANDA: $50,579 · OtherPARTNERS IN HEALTH FOR UGHE MISSION IN RWANDAHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOLPCRF: $7,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,600 · Other+11 more: $19,571 · Other+11 morePARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORP…VENNUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthVENNUE FOUNDATIONWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $21,700 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $800 · Human ServicesPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC: $500 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,134 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalOAKCLIFF SAILING INCORPORATED: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,013 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $1,520 · Youth Development
Other$164,959Health$100,000Human Services$23,500Education$10,500Community Improvement$10,000International$7,384Recreation & Sports$5,013Youth Development$1,520

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $21,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENNUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ZAKAT FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,134 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKCLIFF SAILING INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $1,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,013 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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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 Benali Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benali Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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, 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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