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Edward H Benenson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $257k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PALM BEACH OPERA | $25,000 |
| ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| YMHA - KINGS BAY Y | $20,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMITEE FOR CHILD | $20,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE | $15,000 |
| MADISON JEWISH CENTER | $12,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WESTCHESTER LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| NY BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
75 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +51%- PBPALM BEACH OPERA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +69%
- CCCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- DCDUKE CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $40k
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +37%- KBKINGS BAY YM-YWHA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $24k · revenue +84%
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 142 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Westchester Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS BAY YM-YWHA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROW NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc
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 Edward H Benenson Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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