· Private foundation
The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE MARVIN A & BEN BRUSTIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION (ANMF) | $3,100 |
| CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC (DBA GOODMAN THEATRE) | $2,500 |
| SUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOUSING COALITION | $2,500 |
| CONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| ENGAGE NEPAL (THE SOARWAY FOUNDATION) | $1,500 |
| NEPALI AMERICAN CENTER NFP | $1,150 |
| ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| HELP HEROES OF UKRAINE INC NFP | $1,000 |
| CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION FOUNDATION | $731 |
| LUBAVITCH MESIVTA OF CHICAGO | $680 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (NBGC) | $250 |
| ZETA TAU ZETA CHAPTER WHITE ROSE FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMITTEE (AJC) | $205 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (NPCA) | $175 |
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 US giving — 86% of grant dollars ($94k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($15k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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
Beyond the US — 14% of all-years giving ($15k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 40% of The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 17% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 56 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- AIAYUDA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +269%
- DUDEPAUL UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +15%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $9k
- CHCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +281%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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.
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To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
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Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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.
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Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nepali American Center Nfp. 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 47 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 111 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 AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds READ AHEAD INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds CONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds NEPALI AMERICAN CENTER NFP ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HELP HEROES OF UKRAINE INC NFP ↗
- Who funds AMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 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.