Hawaii · Private foundation
Bendon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $641k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Bendon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $636k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $220k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $313k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $782k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $355k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $325k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maui United Way | $278,500 | 3 | 6% |
| Imua Family Services | $127,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hawaii Public Radio | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ka Lima O Maui Ltd | $115,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pacific Primate Sanctuary Inc | $110,500 | 6 | 34% |
| Ho'Ola Na Pua | $110,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Carden Academy of Maui | $110,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Seabury Hall | $104,910 | 6 | 0% |
| Hawaii Public Television Foundation Dba Pbs Hawaii | $97,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Maui Rescue Mission Inc | $92,500 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bendon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · The Strong Foundation · The Makana Aloha Foundation · Maui United Way · Atherton Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation · Jeanne and Jim Riley Foundation · Rights Education Adoption & Protection for Animal Welfare · Nuestro Futuro Inc
How this is measured
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About Bendon Family Foundation
- How much does Bendon Family Foundation give?
- Bendon Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $641,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bendon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (18%), Philanthropy (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Bendon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Maui United Way ($279k), Imua Family Services ($127k), Hawaii Public Radio ($120k).
- Does Bendon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bendon Family Foundation 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 Bendon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, The Red Cabin Foundation Trust, The Strong Foundation.
- Where is Bendon Family Foundation based?
- Bendon Family Foundation is based in HI.
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