· Private foundation
The Emily Benatar 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHT MINDS AFRICA | $253,290 |
| PALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| SF-MARIN FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $10,000 |
| ADA'S CAFE | $7,500 |
| INSIGHT MEDITATION CENTER OF THE PENINSULA | $6,400 |
| KQED | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,418 |
| CAMP KESEM NATIONAL | $2,500 |
| ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM | $2,100 |
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION - AFGHAN FAMILY RESETTLEMENT | $2,000 |
| HELP MYANMAR | $2,000 |
| LILY OF THE VALLEY | $1,500 |
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION - LESEDI SCHOOLS & CLINIC | $1,080 |
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, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER3× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +120%
- PAPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +44%
- NYNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- VRVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT - EVERYBODY VOTES CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $100k
- VVOTEORGone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -2%
- TATHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
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.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
How this is measured
106 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. 106 of the 145 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 THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMILY STILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLY COFFEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENTS IN RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds KARA ↗
- Who funds Dream Catchers Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds Stag Vets Inc ↗
- Who funds That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING ↗
- Who funds Project Invent ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds LUMOS FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DINNER PARTY LABS CO NPOC SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Emily Benatar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Emily Benatar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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