How much does Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation give?

Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $32,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Religion (18%), International (14%).

Who are Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($103k), Jevs Human Services ($98k), Anti-Defamation League ($86k).

Does Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Henry & Helen Bienenfeld 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 Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.

Where is Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation based?

Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation is based in PA.

Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation

Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry & Helen Bienenfeld 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.

$32k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$430kReligion$276kInternational$204kHuman Services$201kArts & Culture$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kCivil Rights$86kEducation$83kOther$0

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $7k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHEDER CHABAD - PHILADELPHIA	$25,000
GIVE KIDS THE WORLD	$5,000
PEOPLES SECURITY CHARITAABLE FOUNDA	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 28 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+16%

Still filing today

46%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEducationCivil 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

TU
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +25%
JH
JEVS HUMAN SERVICES
6× · 2017–2022 · $98k · revenue +68%
AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +78%

Funded once

JL
JEVS - LEE CASPER YOUTH INNOVATION
one grant, 2017 · $8k
HD
HEALTHLINK DENTAL CLINIC INC
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -45%
EM
ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +16%

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.

Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

Yad Laniyim

Philanthropy

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.

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Sherit Isroel

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Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture

Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International

Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Natal Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

19 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. 19 of the 39 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$947,222International$121,000Arts & Culture$103,700Health$95,500Education$87,500Civil Rights$86,000Human Services$62,500Crime & Legal$2,500

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry & Helen Bienenfeld Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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