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Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc

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.

$56k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 8
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
4
Total assets, FY2023
$858k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$56k25%
FY20228$60k25%
FY20217$55k57%
FY20208$60kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$83kFood & Nutrition$45kAnimals$38kEmployment$29kYouth Development$18kHealth$15kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Appetite for Change Inc$30,00030%
The Lift Garage$19,00040%
East Side Learning Center$18,00021%
Young Detroit Thinkers$18,000313%
Everyone Reading Illinois$13,00029%
Code Savvy$10,00012%
A Mothers Love Initiative$8,00011%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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Find your warmest path to Benjamin & Marion Bregi 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.

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About Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc

How much does Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc give?
Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (24%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Animals (11%).
Who are Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Appetite for Change Inc ($30k), The Lift Garage ($19k), East Side Learning Center ($18k).
Does Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Benjamin & Marion Bregi 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 Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc based?
Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc is based in MI.

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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $48k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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