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The Benjamin Shein Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$201kEmployment$94kArts & Culture$89kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$40kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$66k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIERRA DELTA: $3k → 9%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $5k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $4k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $3k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $2k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $1k → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $500 → 7%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$463k · 27 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
38

Total granted

$463k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+61%

Still filing today

67%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EA
    Episcopal Academy
    6× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +42%
  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +14%
  • HF
    HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • LF
    LUNG FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION THE (AKA CHOP FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • PS
    Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +65%
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.

1
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
3
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
4
Drexel University

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…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
7
Regents of the Mercersburg College

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…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
The Public School of Germantown

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…

Education
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
33/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONCOLOGIC HOSPITAL (AKA FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER): $55,900 · OtherAMERICAN ONCOLOGIC HOSPITAL (AKA FOX CHA…BRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL: $31,000 · OtherBRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITALNANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC (AKA NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL): $15,000 · OtherNANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC (AKA NANTU…JFCS: $9,700 · OtherLUNG FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA: $8,725 · OtherMINDING YOUR MIND FOUNDATION: $7,750 · OtherCHOP FOUNDATION: $7,600 · OtherJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15,900 · OtherJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY+33 more: $45,510 · Other+33 moreMDRC: $94,000 · EmploymentMDRCEpiscopal Academy: $41,500 · EducationEpiscopal Academ…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $24,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $11,500 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOL+3 more: $3,750 · EducationPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $38,400 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA M…THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $24,775 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOU…ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $4,750 · Arts & CultureARTISTS ASSOCI…+2 more: $850 · Arts & CultureHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $25,500 · HealthHEADSTRONG…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $11,450 · HealthCANCER SUP…MAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $5,500 · HealthMAIN LINE …PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 · HealthPALLIATIVE…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 · Health+6 more: $4,000 · Health+6 moreKEVIN CAIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyKEVIN CAI…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $22,396 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,450 · Environment
Other$197,085Employment$94,000Education$81,000Arts & Culture$68,775Health$51,200Philanthropy$44,896Environment$19,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMDRC: $94,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $41,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $38,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $24,775 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $24,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEVIN CAIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $22,396 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $19,450 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $15,900 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $11,450 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMAIN LINE HEALTH INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRYN MAWR FIRE COMPANY: $5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL PARENTS' ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC: $4,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHSMARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMILY WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF ST FRANCIS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOWER MERION CONSERVANCY: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeastern Pennsylvania: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SQUASHSMARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION KIDS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EMILY WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Daniel M Tabas Family…Tzedakah FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Community Foundation …The Saramar Charitabl…Cox Foundation IncThe Mitchell and Hila…Nantucket Golf Club F…The Specter FoundationHamilton Family Found…Chubb Charitable Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…
Daniel M Tabas Family FoundationPA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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