· Private foundation
Brooklyn Benevolent Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| BROOKLYN JESUIT PREP | $30,000 |
| BAY RIDGE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ORATORY OF ST PHILLIP NERI | $20,000 |
| ST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| DE LA SALLE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL OF MANHATTAN | $10,000 |
| BISHOP LOUGHLIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FONTBONNE HALL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LA SALLE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY OF MOUNT ST URSULA | $10,000 |
| XAVERIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE MARY LOUIS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
46 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BJBROOKLYN JESUIT PREP5× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +76%
- HCHOUR CHILDREN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +18%
- CRCRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- LSLA SALLE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $15k
- SSSAINT SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BLBISHOP LOUGHLIN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
Cristo rey brooklyn corporate work study program provides students with a life-changing opportunity to work and earn approximately 50% of the cost of their education. this experience is an essential part of their education and growth. it…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
To provide all students access to a high quality education by facilitating and supporting the creation, operation, and management of innovative and effective school models.
The purpose of the cwsp is to provide cristo rey new york high school with work study for the students. the cwsp engages corporate sponsors to provide students with part-time jobs within their organization to enhance the student's…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Brooklyn heights montessori school provides educational services to preschool, elementary and middle school students in grades 1 to 8 in line with the montessori philosophy.
To provide an integral educational experience through a work/study program which enhances the self esteem, work ethic, academic relevance, and cultural experience of high school students attending cristo rey jesuit high school located in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School and the most unlike its peers is Faith in the Future Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brooklyn Benevolent Society funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.