How much does The Bendheim Foundation give?

The Bendheim Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bendheim Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (16%), Health (14%).

Who are The Bendheim Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy ($120k), The Hide and Seek Foundation ($50k), For Our Future Action Fund ($25k).

Does The Bendheim Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bendheim Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bendheim Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Terumah Foundation Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.

Where is The Bendheim Foundation based?

The Bendheim Foundation is based in NJ.

The Bendheim Foundation

The Bendheim Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bendheim Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1k

Largest

01What it funds

0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$178kReligion$88kHealth$76kInternational$74kArts & Culture$55kCommunity Improvement$29kCivil Rights$9kHuman Services$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$88k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
STEIN YESHIVA OF LINCOLN PARK	$500
Individual grant recipient	$100

02The need

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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of The Bendheim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Bendheim Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 9.5% 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$293k · 30 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$293k

$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+17%

Still filing today

27%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyReligionHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

IS
ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND
5× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +68%
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ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA
2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +101%
TH
The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc
2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +54%

Funded once

AL
ACHISHENA LTD
one grant, 2019 · $50k
FO
FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +86%
FO
FRIENDS OF ADERES HATORAH INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +17%

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.

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Torah Temimah Jerusalem

The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…

Education

Sherit Isroel

—

Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Bais Medrash Mayan Hatorah

To provide religious education and services to our students in the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith

—

The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

—

Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc

Education

University of Judaism Foundation

—

American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Hide and Seek Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 91 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$383,900Philanthropy$111,460Human Services$17,250Religion$11,880Education$10,128Arts & Culture$8,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY38.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Terumah Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Queensgate Foundation · Aviva & Marvin Sussman Foundation · Irving I Stone Foundation · The Kahan Family Foundation · Ahba Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ

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 Bendheim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bendheim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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How do I get to The Bendheim Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bendheim Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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