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Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc

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.

$55k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,300
Organizations funded a year
20 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$154k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
InternationalHealthMembership BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving18$55k33%
FY202420$58k35%
FY202321$68k5%
FY202224$83k4%
FY202124$116k13%
FY202022$83k14%
FY201923$79k26%
FY201820$64k10%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$212kEducation$123kInternational$118kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$36kHealth$34kMembership Benefit$20kCivil Rights$8kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($257k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Petersburg College Foundation Inc: $69,350 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPinellas County Education Foundation Inc: $63,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMenorah Manor Inc: $50,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Burial Society of Pinellas County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFlorida Holocaust Museum Inc: $13,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $11,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $8,510 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ljd Jewish Family & Community Services Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Women's Media Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetClothes to Kids Inc: $5,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Florida Orchestra: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Dillinger Foundation Inc Co Kay Dillinger: $5,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts of St Petersburg Florida Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSalvador Dali Museum Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTorah Academy of Jacksonville Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAyuda Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShorecrest Preparatory School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream On 3: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiffords: $810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTampa Bay Performing Arts Center Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Suncoast Inc: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Jewish Camp Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund Inc: $300 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 30.

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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.

Top Jewish Foundation IncFL28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Maurice a Rothman & Thelma P Rothman Family Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Sonia Raymund Foundation Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Oxman Charitable Fund Trust · Sidney and Lillian Klemow Foundation Inc

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 Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc

How much does Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc give?
Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $54,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (20%), International (19%).
Who are Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Bnai Israel ($99k), St Petersburg College Foundation Inc ($69k), Pinellas County Education Foundation Inc ($63k).
Does Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc 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 Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Top Jewish Foundation Inc, Maurice a Rothman & Thelma P Rothman Family Foundation Inc, Pinellas Community Foundation.
Where is Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc based?
Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 52 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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