New York · Private foundation
Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation
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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 136
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $36
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 136 to 209
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $454k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $10k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 136 | $35k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 161 | $79k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 209 | $72k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 164 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Council of Young Israel | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Educational Center | $3,160 | 4 | n/a |
| Bnos Bais Yaakov of Far Rockaway | $3,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Yeshivat Noam | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America | $2,458 | 4 | 0% |
| Masbia | $2,034 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Book Trust Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yeshiva Ktana of Passaic | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 140 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 201 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Ojc Fund · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · Jewish Communal Fund · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · The Sorala Foundation · House of Gross Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · The Jmg Foundation · Allen I Gross Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation give?
- Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $9,692 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 136 and 209 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Philanthropy (38%), Education (7%).
- Who are Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: National Council of Young Israel ($10k), American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc ($4k), Jewish Educational Center ($3k).
- Does Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation based?
- Gertrude and Morris Bienenfeld Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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