· Private foundation
Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of PHILIP AND MARILYN BENJAMIN FAMILY PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY OF PINELLAS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES | $8,000 |
| GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $4,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH-EL | $3,000 |
| JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC) | $2,700 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $2,610 |
| FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| HADASSAH KEEPERS OF THE GATE | $2,500 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MENORAH MANOR | $1,800 |
| CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL | $1,700 |
| ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL WOMEN MEDIA FOUND (IWMF) | $1,000 |
| GIFFORDS | $810 |
| STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $69k · revenue +374%
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +45%- MMMenorah Manor Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
- TATORAH ACADEMY OF JACKSONVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +94%
- SPSHORECREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +64%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
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.…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
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.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Menorah Manor Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BURIAL SOCIETY OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BETH DILLINGER FOUNDATION INC CO KAY DILLINGER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds SHORECREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Philip and Marilyn Benjamin Family Philanthropic Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Jacksonville Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Menorah Manor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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