· Private foundation
Stuart & Benjamin Abelson Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRESHOLD FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $55,000 |
| CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST | $40,000 |
| PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $30,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CENTER | $30,000 |
| RESCUE RELEASE AND RESTORE | $20,000 |
| COMPANIS | $15,000 |
| OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC | $10,000 |
| NORTH COAST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| FARM & WILDERNESS | $10,000 |
| POWER OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| CHESTERTON ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| REINS OF LIFE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $585k · revenue +7%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +72%
- OTOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +29%
Funded once
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.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
EPP's mission is to leverage climate and finance solutions to promote peace in the world's most fragile regions.
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQIA+ centered community chorus serving the Puget Sound region. We are here to make the world a kinder, more inclusive place, one song at a time.
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble is a professional Equity company dedicated to elevating the lives of women through the power of theatre.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 The Chicago Community Trust ↗
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- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds RESCUE RELEASE AND RESTORE INC NFP ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REINS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds DIVERSE HARMONY CO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Stuart & Benjamin Abelson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stuart & Benjamin Abelson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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