Colorado · Private foundation
Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD
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.
- $46k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $475k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 13 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $48k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $45k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $43k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $43k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $49k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $42k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $39k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $127,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for the New Man | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospice of Metro Denver Inc | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Fertility Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc of Prince George's County Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Energy Outreach Colorado | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $127,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Institute for the New Man | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Jewish Health | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $32,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $29,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hospice of Metro Denver Inc | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Fertility Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Arc of Prince George's County Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Energy Outreach Colorado | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Denver Dumb Friends League | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD with peer funders
About Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD
- How much does Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD give?
- Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD reported 14 grants totaling $46,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Religion (11%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc ($127k), Institute for the New Man ($36k), Jewish Family Service of Colorado Inc ($36k).
- Does Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD 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 Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rose Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD based?
- Joseph and Penny Berenbaum Family FD is based in CO.
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