· Private foundation
Brooklyn Benevolent Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| BAY RIDGE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| BROOKLYN JESUIT PREP | $30,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ORATORY OF ST PHILLIP NERI | $20,000 |
| ST JEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FONTBONNE HALL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DE LA SALLE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| XAVERIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BISHOP LOUGHLIN MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOUR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| SAINT EDMUND PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NAZARETH REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- BLBISHOP LOUGHLIN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SSSAINT SAVIOUR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brooklyn Benevolent Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooklyn Benevolent Society. Bigger dots raise more.
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