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The Barbara a Bender Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Barbara a Bender Family 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$135kPhilanthropy$55kHuman Services$52kHousing & Shelter$40kSocial Science$10kAnimals$10kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$370k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SATYA FOUNDATION INC$30,000
CHABAD OF POTOMAC$10,000
SEQUOIA SPRINGS TRAUMA HEALING CENTER INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEQUOIA SPRINGS TRAUMA HEALING CENTER INC: $2k → 15%SATYA FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 17%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $10k → 11%HOLOENERGETIC FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM: $60k → 10%SO WHAT ELSE: $20k → 8%BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM MARYLAND HILLEL CENTER: $20k → 11%HOUSE OF RUTH: $10k → 14%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $10k → 8%HOUSE OF RUTH: $5k → 14%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $10k → 8%HOUSE OF RUTH: $5k → 14%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF SAFE INTERNATIONAL ROAD TRAVEL: $10k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $5k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $5k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $5k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $5k → 8%CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
NY
OR
NJ
MD
AZ
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 68% of The Barbara a Bender Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Barbara a Bender Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 4 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$147k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+71%

Still filing today

75%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +137%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF RUTH
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +73%
  • GW
    Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd
    4× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • BA
    BEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM MARYLAND HILLEL CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • HF
    HOLOENERGETIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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.

1
Sinai Assisted Housing Foundation Inc

Sinai Assisted Housing Foundation, Inc. operates a four unit residential facility and provides affordable housing, counseling, educational, financial and career development services to the resident families. Sinai House also provides…

Housing & Shelter
2
Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington

Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington provides the "Next Step" program as well as other employment and social services. The Next Step Program is a self-sufficiency program which allows participants to set life improvement goals for…

Human Services
3
Sewa International Inc

The organization's objective is to serve humanity in distress, aid local communities,and promote volunteerism in pursuit of its vision of a world of equality where everyone is happy,enjoying good health, and living in harmony with nature.

Human Services
4
Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International
5
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
6
Everyone Home Dc

We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.

Human Services
7
She Is Safe Inc

She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…

International
8
American Friends of Idf Widows and Orphans Organization Inc

American Friends of IDFWO is dedicated to providing financial, emotional, and social support to the families of Israeli soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in service. We aim to honor their legacy and help rebuild the lives of widows…

Human Services
9
Arab Watch Coalition

Empowering and activating the role of the civil society in the arab region to influence the policies, programs and projects of international financial institutions in the region to achieve effective inclusive, participatory, equitable and…

Human Services
10
Ensaaf

Ensaaf, which means "justice" in many south Asian languages, works to end impunity and achieve justice for crimes against humanity in India, with a focus on Punjab, by documenting abuses, bringing perpetrators to justice, and organizing…

International
11
Washington Court Appointed Special Advoc

CASA's Goal is to provide a carefully researched background of the children who are experiencing abuse and neglect to help the court make a sound decision about the childrens future.

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12
Jubilee Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide housing in the community

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Montgomery County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Satya Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF POTOMAC: $55,000 · OtherCHABAD OF POTOMACBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM MARYLAND HILLEL CENTER: $20,000 · OtherBEN AND ESTHER ROSENBLOOM MARYLAND…HOLOENERGETIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherHOLOENERGETIC FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER MONT…HOUSE OF RUTH: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF RUTHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF …SATYA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropySATYA FOUNDATION …SO WHAT ELSE INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropySO WHAT ELSE INCGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $22,000 · Human ServicesTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsAssociation for Safe International Road Travel Inc: $10,000 · Social ScienceSequoia Springs Trauma Healing Center: $2,000 · Health
Other$100,000Housing & Shelter$70,000International$60,000Philanthropy$50,000Human Services$22,000Animals$10,000Social Science$10,000Health$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GENESIS JERUSALEM INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $22,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation for Safe International Road Travel Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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.

Bender Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Bender Foundation IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bender Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Barbara a Bender Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barbara a Bender Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 13 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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