Maryland · Private foundation
The Bessie 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.
- $66k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $554k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Bessie Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 37 | $59k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $53k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $56k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $14k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $74k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $80k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $77k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $128k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park City Jewish Center Inc | $124,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $24,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Hadassah Foundation Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington Hebrew Congregation | $20,817 | 7 | n/a |
| The Ivymount School Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Peace House Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bessie 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Duber Family Foundation · Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Alan and Amy Meltzer Family Foundation Inc · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · American Gift Fund · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Bessie Family Foundation
- How much does The Bessie Family Foundation give?
- The Bessie Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $66,054 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bessie Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (39%), International (15%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Bessie Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Park City Jewish Center Inc ($124k), Sixth & I Synagogue Inc ($60k), Birthright Israel Foundation ($24k).
- Does The Bessie Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bessie 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 Bessie Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Bessie Family Foundation based?
- The Bessie Family Foundation is based in MD.
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