· Private foundation
The Bess 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC | $1,500 |
| FEED THE CHILDREN INC | $1,500 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK INC | $1,500 |
| FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS S | $1,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY INC | $1,000 |
| NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC | $1,000 |
| FOUNDCARE INC | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| CARIDAD CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 7 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +12%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +46%
- FSFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- HOHospice of the Valleygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +33%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue ×11
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +44%
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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,…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 32 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWARK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The New York and Presbyterian Hospital ↗
- Who funds Caridad Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Urban League of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds SPEAK UP FOR KIDS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER METROWEST NJ ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST NJ A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK 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: Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bess Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bess Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Newark School of the Arts: 20% of income from government
- Foundcare Inc: 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
- Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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