· Private foundation
Edward H Benenson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK MEDICAL UNIT | $150,000 |
| PALM BEACH OPERA | $50,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $50,000 |
| MADISON JEWISH CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMITEE FOR CHILD | $40,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| COGENERATE | $25,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| NY BOTANIACAL GARDEN | $15,000 |
| GEORGETOWN LAW | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 10 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +51%- PBPALM BEACH OPERA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +69%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- DCDUKE CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $40k
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +37%- KBKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +84%
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.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
93 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. 93 of the 152 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.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Park Medical Unit Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward H Benenson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward H Benenson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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