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Gertrude and Murray Bennett Family Foundation at a glance

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Gertrude and Murray Bennett Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.1MInternational$612kFood & Nutrition$568kHealth$565kCivil Rights$248kHousing & Shelter$190kHuman Services$186kEnvironment$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $260k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL F$25,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$25,000
FEEDING AMERICA$25,000
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FN$15,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$15,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$15,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$10,368
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
NEW YORK GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INSTITUT$10,000
MAZON$10,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$10,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
PFLAG$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $5k → 14%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $5k → 17%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $10k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $8k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $4k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $3k → 17%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTA: $5k → 17%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
PA
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
MS
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 83 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
9

Total granted

$3.4M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+3%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Feeding America
    8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +84%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +81%
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +54% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • NP
    NY PRESBYTERIAN
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • C
    CREW
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI COVID-19 FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
2
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
3
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
7
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
8
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
9
New York University

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.

Education
10
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
International Bridges to Justice

In recognition of the fundamental principles of the universal declaration of human rights, international bridges to justice (ibj) is dedicated to protecting the basic legal rights of ordinary citizens in developing countries. specifically,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foodbank of Southern California. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 108 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
50/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL F: $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL FUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LSA SCHOLARS: $90,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherORT AMERICA INC: $80,000 · OtherLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $80,000 · OtherHADASSAH: $80,000 · OtherLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FN: $75,000 · OtherLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FO: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SO CALIF SCHOOL DENTI: $75,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 · Other+58 more: $1,026,096 · Other+58 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $120,000 · InternationalInternational …The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $85,000 · InternationalThe American J…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $70,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES …WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $35,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWIS…BUILD A SCHOOL IN AFRICA: $30,000 · InternationalBUILD A SCHOOL…THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $30,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · International+6 more: $52,000 · International+6 moreFeeding America: $235,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Am…FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $105,000 · Food & NutritionFOODBANK O…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $200,000 · HealthNATIONAL M…THE NEW YORK GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $95,000 · HealthTHE NEW YO…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $22,500 · HealthPARTNERS I…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $20,000 · HealthPROJECT AN…MIRACLEFEET: $15,000 · Health+4 more: $16,500 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $170,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…ROOM TO READ: $27,500 · EducationROOM TO RE…+2 more: $8,000 · EducationUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $82,299 · Human ServicesVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $62,500 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,076,096International$522,000Food & Nutrition$380,000Health$369,000Education$355,500Human Services$187,299Philanthropy$97,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $235,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $170,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $95,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $82,299 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $62,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC: $49,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPFLAG: $45,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $32,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids: $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUFW FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHREAD INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER COUNTY FREEDOM PROJECT: $10,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK GLAUCOMA RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILL UNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PFLAG ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗

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.

Conrad N Hilton Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…
Conrad N Hilton FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gertrude and Murray Bennett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude and Murray Bennett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home