· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Young Detroit Thinkers | $8,000 |
| Belle Isle Aquarium co Belle Isle C | $8,000 |
| Everyone Reading Illinois | $8,000 |
| NW Mich College Foundation | $8,000 |
| Eastside Learning Center | $8,000 |
| A Mother's Love Initiative | $8,000 |
| The Lift Garage | $4,000 |
| Amer Gear Manufacturer's Associatio | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NMNW Mich College Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $38k
- AFAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue -15%
- BIBelle Isle Aquarium co Belle Isle C3× · 2021–2023 · $28k
Funded once
- CSCODE SAVVYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14%
- BIBELLE ISLE AQUARIUM CO BELLEone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PFPROVIDENCE FARMS COMMUNITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
The Literacy Connection is a community-based organization helping adults learners in Elgin and the surrounding northwest suburban area acquire fundamental literacy skills.
To help underserved young people and communities understand the causes of inequalities and injustice in society and how communities have fought against them, develop both a deep belief in themselves that they can challenge those injustices…
To Provide Accessible and Customized Tutoring in Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Understanding English to Help Adults Achieve Independence.
The Youth Life Foundation of Richmond operates Learning Centers to develop leaders by making long-term investments in children from under-served communities. By supporting students academically, developing their character from a young age,…
Reading for change is a safe place where students are provided free literacy tutoring, homework help, a nutritious snack, love and encouragement.
The mission of the Minnesota CDFI Coalition is to activate the collective superpowers of Minnesota CDFIs to achieve economic justice.
TEECH transforms education by training future educators as community advocates before they ever enter the classrooms.
The Technology Access Foundation builds collaborative relationships with public education to create access to transformative systems of learning for students and teachers of color to eliminate race-based disparities in an increasingly…
Lift is an afterschool literacy and enrichment program for struggling readers in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students in the Eastbrook South Elementary School District.
Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…
The Organization's mission is to create a radical future for Black Minnesotans by advancing Black-Centered policies and solutions that actualize true liberation.
Educate the public on issues of public concern, voters on voting and electoral process.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin & Marion Bregi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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