Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Bender 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.
- $6.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $157M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Bender Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 69 | $5.3M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $5.8M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $6.1M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $5.3M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $5.8M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $5.7M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 72 | $5.9M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $24M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bender West Foundation | $17,300,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Bender Jcc of Greater Washington | $5,742,200 | 8 | 13% |
| Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc | $2,389,999 | 8 | 7% |
| Washington Hospital Center Corporation | $2,000,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American University | $1,600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $1,548,515 | 8 | 0% |
| Ashley Inc | $1,250,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Jewish Women International | $1,111,500 | 6 | 15% |
| Hope for Henry Foundation | $779,170 | 7 | 11% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $675,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bender Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Ronald & Joy Paul Family Foundation Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Bender Foundation Inc
- How much does Bender Foundation Inc give?
- Bender Foundation Inc reported 84 grants totaling $6,152,172 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bender Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Health (17%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Bender Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bender West Foundation ($17M), Bender Jcc of Greater Washington ($5.7M), Suburban Hospital Foundation Inc ($2.4M).
- Does Bender Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bender Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bender Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is Bender Foundation Inc based?
- Bender Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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