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Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$721k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
7%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$721k4%
FY202427$259k7%
FY202328$258k4%
FY202233$253k3%
FY202134$229k6%
FY202033$198k6%
FY201931$184k10%
FY201830$180k23%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MInternational$173kHousing & Shelter$158kCivil Rights$116kHuman Services$96kArts & Culture$71kEducation$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $510,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $122,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $68,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $67,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSelfhelp Community Services Inc: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $60,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $48,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service Inc: $36,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetConquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology: $32,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRheumatology Research Foundation: $25,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Area Gleaners Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle Flights: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVenice Family Clinic: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Service Center Inc: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Maureen Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc: $1,600 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelonging to Each Other Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation

How much does Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation give?
Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $721,431 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (61%), International (7%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($510k), Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc ($122k), Pine Street Inn Inc ($90k).
Does Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation based?
Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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