New York · Private foundation
The Ben-Abou 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.
- $398k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $138,429
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $858k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Ben-Abou Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $398k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $233k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $653k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $124k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $227k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $199k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc | $201,065 | 5 | n/a |
| Chabad of Sacramento | $165,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bnos Menachem Inc | $110,185 | 7 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc | $79,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Darchai Menachem Inc | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Global Community Charter School | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nachlas Yitzchok | $27,430 | 2 | n/a |
| Solomon Center Inc | $23,040 | 3 | 2% |
| United Jewish Childrens Fund Inc | $20,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Cong Ohel Chabad Lubavitch | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc | $201,065 | 5 | n/a |
| Chabad of Sacramento | $165,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Bnos Menachem Inc | $110,185 | 7 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc | $79,400 | 3 | 1% |
| Darchai Menachem Inc | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Global Community Charter School | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nachlas Yitzchok | $27,430 | 2 | n/a |
| Solomon Center Inc | $23,040 | 3 | 2% |
| United Jewish Childrens Fund Inc | $20,500 | 2 | 5% |
| Cong Ohel Chabad Lubavitch | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tzivos Hashem | $17,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Kanfay Nesharim Corp | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ezrat Israel Inc | $14,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ohr Menachem | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshivas Beis Dovid Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Crown Heights Chevra Simchas Shabbos V'Yom Tov Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keren Hachomesh Inc | $9,870 | 1 | 2% |
| Jewish Latin Center Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Chabad of Columbus Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Talmidei Hakvutze Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Chaim Vachesed | $3,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Jacob | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jcc Dubai Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Uforatzto Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Rachashei Lev Whispers of The Heart | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Childrens Museum | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Rav Moshe Feinstein Foundation Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Belz Institutions of Lakewood Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Chabad Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Machne Israel Inc | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Ohel Yosef D Ostilla | $1,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Neros L'Ha'Ir Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Colel Chabad | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kolel Chibas Jerusalem | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ben-Abou Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Ben-Abou Foundation
- How much does The Ben-Abou Foundation give?
- The Ben-Abou Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $398,404 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Ben-Abou Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Education (8%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are The Ben-Abou Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Lubavitcher Yeshivoth Inc ($201k), Chabad of Sacramento ($165k), Bnos Menachem Inc ($110k).
- Does The Ben-Abou Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ben-Abou Foundation 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 The Ben-Abou Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Nash Charity Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ben-Abou Foundation based?
- The Ben-Abou Foundation is based in NY.
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