· Private foundation
Bennack Polan Foundation A57121005
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $40,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $28,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS PARISH | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TEXAS HILL | $25,000 |
| CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| USA FOR UNFPA | $20,000 |
| DEER RUN & BROOKWOODS CAMP | $20,000 |
| USA FOR UNFPA | $20,000 |
| THE MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RESPONSE | $15,000 |
| FROM THE HEART PRODUCTION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE HILLS | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Bennack Polan Foundation A57121005’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- STSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC3× · 2017–2020 · $48k · revenue +3%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE3× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +23%
The Houston Food Bank2× · 2020–2021 · $40k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TPTHE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIAone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +3%
- PHPETERSON HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut College and the most unlike its peers is Mephiboseth Farms Angelic Riders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN UP CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds USA FOR UNFPA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Classical Music Institute CMI ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
- Who funds SKATEISTAN ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FORESTDALE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds American Gateways ↗
- Who funds FACING HUNGER FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WELL AWARE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · San Antonio Area Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Express Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bennack Polan Foundation A57121005 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.