· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDRF | $90,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART | $7,500 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| EPISCOPAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY | $3,600 |
| KEVIN CAIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PEWNNSYLVANIAPHILADELPHIA ANTIQUES SHOW | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EAEpiscopal Academy6× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +42%
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +14%
- HFHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- LFLUNG FOUNDATION AUSTRALIAone grant, 2018 · $9k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION THE (AKA CHOP FOUNDATION)one grant, 2018 · $5k
- PSPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lower Merion Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds KEVIN CAIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL PARENTS' ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA DELTA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMILY WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.