· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $138,429 |
| Chabad of Sacramento | $105,000 |
| BETH RIVKAH | $23,000 |
| Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo | $20,600 |
| BNOS MENACHEM | $18,995 |
| UNITED LUBAVITCHER YESHIVA | $16,560 |
| Kanfay Nesharim | $15,000 |
| CAMP EMUNAH | $11,130 |
| Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights | $10,000 |
| Jewish Latin Center | $8,000 |
| SOLOMON CENTER | $7,500 |
| Mei Chaya Mushka Mikvah Inc | $5,000 |
| United Talmidei Hakvutze Inc | $5,000 |
| Congregation Chaim Vachesed | $3,600 |
| Global Community Charter School | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YGYeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $79k · revenue +165%
- GCGLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
- SCSOLOMON CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- UTUnited Talmudic Academyone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
Religious School
publish religious books
Religious Teaching
To make grants to religious and charitable organizations
Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.
Chabad of Medellin Columbia Inc is an organization dedicated to furthering the religious, educational, and charitable needs of the Jewish Community.
encourage and facilitate the observance of traditional orthodox Jewish practices around the world.
TO FOCUS ON JEWISH EDUCATION AND SPIRITUALITY AND to engage with the Almighty by means of passionate prayer, to delve into the inner dimensions of the Torah, and to grow in ones relationship with Hashem.
Provide college level education and extensive background of jewish law and talmudic studies and rabbinical ordination.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 68 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 Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BIKUR CHOLIM OF CROWN HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAS BEIS DOVID INC ↗
- Who funds CROWN HEIGHTS CHEVRA SIMCHAS SHABBOS V'YOM TOV INC ↗
- Who funds KEREN HACHOMESH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LATIN CENTER INC ↗
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: The Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Nash Charity Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lavie Shterna Popack Family Foundat · Saul Schottenstein Foundation C · The Jacobson Foundation · Bracha Vehatzlacha Foundation Inc · Lets Make It Happen Ny Inc · Jla Charitable Foundation · Hp Foundation Inc · Barber Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ben-Abou Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ben-Abou Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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