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Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$310k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$310k14%
FY202319$300k32%
FY202218$269k22%
FY202114$365k14%
FY202016$335kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$740kPhilanthropy$600kArts & Culture$94kCrime & Legal$55kEducation$34kHuman Services$19kReligion$18kYouth Development$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lifebridge Health Inc$315,00050%
Itineris Foundation Inc$250,00059%
Erin Michele Levitas Education Foundation Inc$46,50054%
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc$38,00010%
The Jemicy School Inc$33,50050%
Missionfit$15,00035%
Center Stage Associates Inc$14,50050%
Baltimore Museum of Art$14,00040%
Voices of Hope Inc$10,00020%
Meh Aftercare Foundation$10,0002n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($802k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifebridge Health Inc: $315,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetItineris Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetErin Michele Levitas Education Foundation Inc: $46,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBaltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jemicy School Inc: $33,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMissionfit: $15,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCenter Stage Associates Inc: $14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVoices of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetShalom Tikvah Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGlbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Visionary Art Museum Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbortion Fund of Maryland Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPro Bono Counseling Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Stewart and Marlene Greenebaum Family Foundation Inc · Hoffberger Foundation Inc · The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation Inc · Baltimore Civic Fund Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

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About Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc

How much does Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc give?
Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $309,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Philanthropy (38%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lifebridge Health Inc ($315k), Itineris Foundation Inc ($250k), Erin Michele Levitas Education Foundation Inc ($47k).
Does Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc based?
Benno and Elayne Hurwitz Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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