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Benjamin & Sara Greenspan Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Benjamin & Sara Greenspan Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0177% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$27kAnimals$18kInternational$17kFood & Nutrition$11kHealth$10kEducation$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
6
States reached
$365k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP$2,000
SAFARI WEST FOUNDATION$1,900
CANAL ALLIANCE$1,750
PROJECT MORE$1,500
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,350
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
DESTINY ARTS CENTER$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$750
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$750
Individual grant recipient$750
CENTER FOR REPRO RIGHTS$750
MARINE MAMMAL SOCIETY$500
Individual grant recipient$500
WILDLIFE CONSERV SOCIETY$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT MORE: $3k → 8%SAFARI WEST FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%DESTINY ARTS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP: $2k → 12%DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND: $1k → 13%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $4k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $3k → 8%MARINE MAMMAL SOCIETY: $1k → 8%GUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC: $2k → 9%DESTINY ARTS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%CENTER FOR REPRO RIGHTS: $1k → 17%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $4k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $3k → 8%SAFARI WEST FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%DESTINY ARTS CENTER: $1k → 10%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $4k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $3k → 8%GUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC: $2k → 9%DESTINY ARTS CENTER: $1k → 10%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $4k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $2k → 8%AMAMEDA CO COMM FOOD BANK: $2k → 10%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $3k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $2k → 8%SF PARKS ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%NYU TISCH: $6k → 17%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $3k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $2k → 8%SF MARIN FOOD BANK: $5k → 10%NYU: $6k → 17%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $2k → 9%PROJECT MORE: $1k → 8%NYU TISCH: $5k → 17%ABORTION CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $2k → 9%NYU TISCH: $5k → 17%ABORTION CARE NETWORK: $1k → 14%INST FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $1k → 9%CANAL ALLIANCE: $2k → 8%NYU TISCH: $1k → 17%CANAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%CANAL ALLIANCE: $1k → 8%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%JDCORG: $1k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%KQED-PBS: $1k → 10%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

WA
MN
NY
OH
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$142k · 29 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
12

Total granted

$142k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+13%

Still filing today

52%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalAnimalsRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +64%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +41%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -39%
  • N
    NYU
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • AC
    AMAMEDA CO COMM FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
9
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
12
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way; the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. 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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $26,500 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPPROJECT MORE: $18,000 · OtherPROJECT MOREIndividual grant recipient: $17,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $9,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKNYU: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherMARINE MAMMAL SOCIETY: $4,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $4,250 · OtherSAFARI WEST FOUNDATION: $4,150 · Other+18 more: $26,225 · Other+18 moreWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $11,500 · InternationalWOMEN FOR…International Rescue Committee INC: $1,500 · InternationalInternati…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · InternationalSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsDestiny Arts Center: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsABORTION CARE NETWORK: $3,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,375 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthGUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,500 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $250 · AnimalsCANAL ALLIANCE: $5,000 · ReligionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$120,875International$13,500Recreation & Sports$8,000Health$5,875Animals$5,750Religion$5,000Civil Rights$3,000

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: $26,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANK LTD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $1,875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRANSON SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $250 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.

  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TANK LTD ↗
  • Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BRANSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Benjamin & Sara Greenspan Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin & Sara Greenspan Fund. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 41 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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