New York · Private foundation
Brooklyn Benevolent Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $414k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 47
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Brooklyn Benevolent Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $414k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $279k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $222k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $259k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $254k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $239k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Saviour High School | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Academy of Mount Saint Ursula | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Notre Dame School of Manhattan | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Brooklyn Jesuit Prep | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Xaverian High School Inc | $67,000 | 7 | n/a |
| De la Salle Academy | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hour Children Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| La Salle Academy | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Holy Cross High School of Bayside | $58,500 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Saviour High School | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Academy of Mount Saint Ursula | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Notre Dame School of Manhattan | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Brooklyn Jesuit Prep | $70,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Xaverian High School Inc | $67,000 | 7 | n/a |
| De la Salle Academy | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hour Children Inc | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| La Salle Academy | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School | $60,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Holy Cross High School of Bayside | $58,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Nazareth Regional High School | $57,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School | $57,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Cristo Rey New York High School | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| St Josephs School for the Deaf | $48,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Cornelia Connely Center for Education | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Bay Ridge Catholic Academy | $43,000 | 4 | n/a |
| St Ignatius School | $40,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Monsignor McClancy Memorial High School | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Jean Baptiste Parochial High School | $25,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Loyola School | $17,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Providence House Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Faith in the Future Inc | $8,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Calvary Hospital Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Helen Keller Services | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Martin Luther School | $5,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Long Beach Catholic School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Angels Catholic Academy | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp Fatima Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Patrick Catholic Academy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($771k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brooklyn Benevolent Society 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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Michael Gordon Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · American Express Foundation · Theresa & Edward O'Toole Foundation · Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Tiro a Segno Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Brooklyn Benevolent Society
- How much does Brooklyn Benevolent Society give?
- Brooklyn Benevolent Society reported 37 grants totaling $413,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Brooklyn Benevolent Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (89%), Crime & Legal (3%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Brooklyn Benevolent Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Saviour High School ($70k), Academy of Mount Saint Ursula ($70k), Notre Dame School of Manhattan ($70k).
- Does Brooklyn Benevolent Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brooklyn Benevolent Society accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brooklyn Benevolent Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Brooklyn Benevolent Society based?
- Brooklyn Benevolent Society is based in NY.
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