Brooklyn Benevolent Society
Brooklyn, NY · EIN 11-1661344. Reported 173 grants totalling $1,426,500 to 51 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Brooklyn Benevolent Society did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Francis Preparatory School | Fresh Meadows, NY | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Xavier High School | New York, NY | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| St Saviour High School | Brooklyn, NY | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Academy of Mount St Ursula | Bronx, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| De La Salle Academy | New York, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Fontbonne Hall Academy | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hour Children | Long Island, NY | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| La Salle Academy | New York, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nazareth Regional High School | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Notre Dame School of Manhattan | New York, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Saint Edmund Preparatory High School | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Mary Louis Academy | Jamaica, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Holy Cross High School | Flushing, NY | $43,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Joseph's School for the Deaf | Bronx, NY | $43,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School | Brooklyn, NY | $42,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Ignatius School | Bronx, NY | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bay Ridge Catholic Academy | Brooklyn, NY | $39,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Cornelia Connelly Center | New York, NY | $37,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Cristo Rey New York High School | New York, NY | $37,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Patrick Catholic Academy | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Oratory of St Phillip Neri | Brooklyn, NY | $33,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Brooklyn Jesuit Prep | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Monsignor Mcclancy Memorial High School | East Elmhurst, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Xaverian High School | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Dominican Academy | New York, NY | $24,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Jean Baptiste High School | New York, NY | $23,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Camp Fatima and Bernadette | Gilmanton Iron Works, NH | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Francis De Sales School for the Deaf | Brooklyn, NY | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Brooklyn Jesuit Prepatory Academy | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Monsignor Mcclaney High School | East Elmhurst, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Saint Ignatius School | New York, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Xavarian High School | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Agnes Roman Catholic Cathedral | Rockville Center, NY | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Loyola School | New York, NY | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Ignatius Loyola School | New York, NY | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Albertus Magnus High School | Bardonia, NY | $12,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Camp Fatima & Bernadette | Gilmanton Iron Works, NH | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Faith in the Future | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow | Brooklyn, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jesuits USA Northeast Province | New York, NY | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Providence House | Brooklyn, NY | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Long Beach Catholic School | Long Beach, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Martin Luther School | Queens, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Ignatius Loyala School | New York, NY | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Calvary Hospital | Bronx, NY | $4,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jesuit Volunteer Corps | Baltimore, MD | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Seton Hall Preparatory School | West Orange, NJ | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Agnes Roman Catholic Church | Brooklyn, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Xavier Higher Achievement Program | New York, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jesuit Volunteers Corps | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
45 of 51 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 98%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 34 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 40 | $254,000 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 40 | $259,000 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 26 | $221,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 30 | $278,500 | $10,000 |
| 2025 | 37 | $413,500 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in New York. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Brooklyn Benevolent Society's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 137 Montague Street 420, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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