Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Benjamin Shein Family 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.
- $133k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $133k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $50k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $27k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $36k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $48k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $57k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mdrc | $94,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Episcopal Academy | $41,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $38,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Headstrong Foundation | $25,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Barnes Foundation | $24,775 | 6 | 0% |
| Kevin Cain Memorial Foundation | $22,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc | $19,450 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Relief Agency | $15,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Haverford School | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia | $11,450 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Benjamin Shein Family 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.
Open a dossier: Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation · Tzedakah Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Cox Foundation Inc · The Mitchell and Hilarie Morgan Family Foundation · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · The Specter Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation
- How much does The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation give?
- The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $132,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Employment (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mdrc ($94k), Episcopal Academy ($42k), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($38k).
- Does The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Benjamin Shein Family 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 Benjamin Shein Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Daniel M Tabas Family Foundation, Tzedakah Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation based?
- The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation is based in PA.
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