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The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$19kPhilanthropy$14kHuman Services$11kCrime & Legal$10kEducation$10kArts & Culture$9kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50
Median grant
17
States reached
$974k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION (ANMF)$3,100
MOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOUSING COALITION$2,500
CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC (DBA GOODMAN THEATRE)$2,500
SUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD BANK$2,500
CONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
ENGAGE NEPAL (THE SOARWAY FOUNDATION)$1,500
NEPALI AMERICAN CENTER NFP$1,150
HELP HEROES OF UKRAINE INC NFP$1,000
ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION INC$1,000
CHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION FOUNDATION$731
LUBAVITCH MESIVTA OF CHICAGO$680
ZETA TAU ZETA CHAPTER WHITE ROSE FOUNDATION INC$250
NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (NBGC)$250
AMERICAN JEWISH COMITTEE (AJC)$205
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION (NPCA)$175
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHIPS: $6k → 20%THE SEEING EYE: $25 → 4%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $1k → 7%SHE SHOULD RUN: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25 → 14%AYUDA: $5k → 14%AYUDA: $5k → 14%ABPA FOUNDATION INC: $75 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
KS
DC
AL
FL

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($15k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$12k · 2 grants
Nepal$3k · 1 grant
Netherlands$500 · 1 grant
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 40% of The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 17%.

The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39k · 18 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
35

Total granted

$39k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+28%

Still filing today

44%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’24
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AI
    AYUDA INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +269%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +15%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    3× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +281%
  • RA
    READ AHEAD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
2
United States Naval Institute

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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3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
American National Standards Institute

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.

Public Benefit
6
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
7
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
American Geophysical Union

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…

Science & Tech
12
Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 111 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
39/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $9,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD BANK: $5,750 · OtherSUNSHINE BACKPACK FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE SHORE DRIVE SYNAGOGUE: $3,650 · OtherLAKE SHORE DRIVE SYNAGOGUESANGSANGAI: $3,500 · OtherSANGSANGAIAMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION (ANMF): $3,100 · OtherEDUCATION FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FOR USA - CANADA: $3,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $2,575 · OtherMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $2,500 · OtherSOCIAL WELFARE COUNCIL OF NEPAL: $2,500 · Other+67 more: $21,567 · Other+67 moreAYUDA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INCCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN P…SHE SHOULD RUN: $1,250 · Human ServicesSHE SHOULD RUNNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $1,250 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Catho…+4 more: $160 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,560 · InternationalUNITED STATE…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,550 · InternationalTHE UNION OF…International Rescue Committee INC: $2,535 · InternationalInternationa…HIAS INC: $2,275 · InternationalHIAS INCHELP HEROES OF UKRAINE INC NFP: $1,000 · InternationalHELP HEROES …ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $780 · InternationalISRAEL EMERG…+4 more: $210 · InternationalREAD AHEAD INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25 · PhilanthropyCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEPALI AMERICAN CENTER NFP: $1,150 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO NAVY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $86 · Arts & CultureDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $2,580 · EducationALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $135 · EducationCONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 · Animals+3 more: $115 · Animals
Other$62,242Human Services$18,660International$11,910Philanthropy$5,025Arts & Culture$4,986Education$3,715Animals$2,115

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAYUDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREAD AHEAD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $2,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,535 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $2,275 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONWAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $1,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEPAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO SINAI CONGREGATION FOUNDATION: $731 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZeta Tau Zeta Chapter White Rose Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLISH AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoosevelt University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABPA FOUNDATION INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARYONE FOUNDATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marvin a & Ben Brustin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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