· Private foundation
Bennett 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU Foundation | $20,000 |
| NM Wild | $1,000 |
| Virginia Tech | $1,000 |
| Duke University | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $1,000 |
| Carpinteria Education Foundation | $500 |
| Orange County Animal Shelter | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Upstate Forever | $500 |
| Citizens for Carpinteria Bluffs | $500 |
| Animal Protection Society of Durham | $500 |
| Climate Science Legal Defense Fund | $500 |
| Santa Fe Literary Festival | $100 |
| Hondo Volunteer Fire Dept | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $363k · revenue +44%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +65%
THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM3× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2k
- PPPlanned Parenthood Federation of USone grant, 2019 · $1k
- OCOrange County Animal Servicesone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The aclu of north carolina dares to create a more perfect union - beyond one person, party, or side. our mission is to realize this promise of the united states and north carolina constitutions for all and expand the reach of their…
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.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 29 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.
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY OF DURHAM ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Carpinteria Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Bennett Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bennett Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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