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.

Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation

Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$721k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% 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

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $80k
$10k–50k4 grants · $61k
$50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE	$500,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$80,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADO	$18,000
PINE STREET INN	$18,000
CAMERA	$15,000
ROSIE'S PLACE	$10,000
USHER 1F COLLABORATIVE 228	$9,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND	$8,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOC	$8,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MA	$8,000
SELF HELP COMMUNITY SERVICES	$7,000
PALLIATIVE CARE SVC FUND - MGH	$5,000
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS	$4,000
CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION	$4,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MA	$4,000

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 (FY17–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 34 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 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

$2.4M

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

-13%

Still filing today

56%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
6× · 2018–2025 · $510k · revenue +123%
CF
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +85%
PINE STREET INN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +123%

Funded once

Care Dimensions Inc
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
FJ
FALMOUTH JEWISH CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $2k
EH
EDWARD HADDEN OPEN HEARTS CAMP
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 48 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)

27/27

Grantees still filing

20/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,225,672Health$739,500International$172,000Human Services$150,000Housing & Shelter$68,000Education$61,500Food & Nutrition$20,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo H Bendit Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

1report 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.

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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