· Private foundation
Lj Bender 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON HOLE JEWISH COMMUNITY | $100,000 |
| SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN | $40,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| CHABAD OF WEST HOUSTON INC | $25,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| SKY HIGH FOR KIDS | $25,000 |
| BETH YESHURUN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $18,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +48%
- SASEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +16%
- BYBETH YESHURUN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION4× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- AEAIEF EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k
- TJTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER TEXASone grant, 2022 · $25k
- HMHOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.
The mission of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston is to develop and strengthen Jewish identity, foster Jewish values, and enrich the Jewish community and the greater community.
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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…
Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds BETH YESHURUN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lj Bender Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lj Bender Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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