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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 FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Philanthropy$26MHealth$12MReligion$6.6MEducation$5.1MArts & Culture$3.1MRecreation & Sports$2.9MHuman Services$2.7MYouth Development$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $639k
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$157M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$300,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE FUND$250,000
MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER$250,000
CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM$250,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$250,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$250,000
ASHLEY ADDICTION TREATMENT$250,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$250,000
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL$200,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$150,000
JEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$150,000
BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON$150,000
GRASSROOTS HEALTH$110,000
VIVA SCHOOL (CITYDANCE)$100,000
MARY'S CENTER$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $100k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $50k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $60k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $60k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $30k → 8%POTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $30k → 8%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $75k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $75k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $75k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $75k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $75k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $50k → 14%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1.5M → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1.5M → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $300k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $300k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $300k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $300k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $250k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $250k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $150k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $150k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $150k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $100k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $100k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $100k → 8%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $35k → 14%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $60k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $60k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $50k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $50k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 14%FUTURE LINK: $150k → 8%FUTURE LINK: $125k → 8%FUTURE LINK: $100k → 8%FUTURE LINK: $95k → 8%FUTURE LINK: $75k → 8%FUTURE LINK: $50k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCYQ: $50k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCYQ: $50k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $50k → 8%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

WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.
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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 7% of Bender Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 21%.

Bender Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 117 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

117 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
65

Total granted

$44M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+32%

Still filing today

62%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $529k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • BJ
    BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +11%
  • SH
    SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +44%
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BW
    Bender West Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $17M · revenue -93% · 97% of their budget
  • JA
    JSSA ADL BENDER JCC
    one grant, 2019 · $625k
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
3
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
4
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
5
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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8
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
9
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
11
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
12
Healthcare Access Maryland Inc

We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is All for Recovery Inc. 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

122 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. 122 of the 199 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/122
Grantees still filing
90/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bender West Foundation: $17,300,000 · PhilanthropyBender West FoundationVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,050,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGR…+6 more: $1,098,500 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDS: $3,950,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND…Individual grant recipient: $1,825,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJewish Women International: $1,111,500 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $1,100,000 · OtherREACH EDUCATION INC: $900,000 · OtherJEWISH WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $775,000 · OtherCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $760,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · OtherTORTURE ABOLITION AND SURVIVORS SUPP: $750,000 · Other+119 more: $10,040,266 · Other+119 moreSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,389,999 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL …WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $2,000,000 · HealthWASHINGTON HOSPITA…American Heart Association Inc: $1,548,515 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…ASHLEY INC: $1,250,000 · HealthASHLEY INCHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $779,170 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOU…GRASSROOTS HEALTH: $650,000 · HealthGRASSROOTS HEALTHIDENTITY INC: $630,000 · HealthIDENTITY INCCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $390,000 · Health+18 more: $1,188,100 · Health+18 moreBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5,742,200 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF …FUTURE LINK INC: $595,000 · Human ServicesFUTURE LINK IN…JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $545,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH SOCIAL …HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $445,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES INC: $350,000 · Human Services+11 more: $750,000 · Human Services+11 moreAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,600,000 · EducationCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $425,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $290,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB: $216,000 · Education+5 more: $164,500 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $675,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM: $65,000 · Arts & CultureCITYDANCE ENSEMBLE INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $78,000 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $750,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC: $155,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$21,448,500Other$21,962,366Health$10,825,784Human Services$8,427,200Education$3,095,500Arts & Culture$1,273,000Community Improvement$905,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBender West Foundation: $17,300,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5,742,200 over 8y, 13% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,050,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,389,999 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $2,000,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,548,515 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEY INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Women International: $1,111,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $779,170 over 7y, 11% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $675,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH: $650,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetIDENTITY INC: $630,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFUTURE LINK INC: $595,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $545,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $445,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE: $428,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCOLLEGETRACKS INC: $425,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE AND A HOME: $390,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $390,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC: $364,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetRose Community Foundation: $350,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $316,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOXIE G FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetPeace of Mind Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $300,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $290,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $216,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOTOMAC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $210,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetMARYLAND HORSE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetEVERYMIND INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $175,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDC SCORES: $175,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $162,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMELVIN J BERMAN HEBREW ACADEMY: $160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNONPROFIT MONTGOMERY INC: $155,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREE OF HOPE ASSOCIATION: $155,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $153,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSPIRIT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $151,800 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetMARATHON KIDS INC: $145,000 over 7y, 1.9% 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.

  • Who funds Bender West Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASHLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Women International ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds IDENTITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE LINK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGETRACKS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AND A HOME ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…Ronald & Joy Paul Fam…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…The Carl M Freeman Fo…The Gary and Pennie A…Nora Roberts Foundati…Healthcare Initiative…The Morningstar Phila…William S Abell Found…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC55.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Bender Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bender Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Parent Encouragement Program Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Identity Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Everymind Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy: 2% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bender Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bender Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 199 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home