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Bennett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$914k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bennett Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$73k83%
FY20242$75k0%
FY20239$85k67%
FY20227$61k57%
FY20216$40k33%
FY20205$73k40%
FY20196$76k67%
FY20188$67k75%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$237kEducation$132kEnvironment$55kHealth$42kFood & Nutrition$22kHousing & Shelter$8kHuman Services$8kScience & Tech$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
RI
CA
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bennett Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPen American Center Inc: $206,880 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDenali Foundation: $42,500 over 3y, 43% of budgetTree Foundation Inc: $26,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEmpowered by Light: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio: $19,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStephen Gaynor School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExceptional Children's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Science Research Laboratory Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNational Poetry Series Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFilm at Lincoln Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Newport County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasa: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Hearing & Service Dogs Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Playwrights Realm: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest School of Art: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Foundation: $1,150 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild and Free Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY13.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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About Bennett Family Foundation

How much does Bennett Family Foundation give?
Bennett Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $73,030 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bennett Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Education (24%), Environment (10%).
Who are Bennett Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pen American Center Inc ($207k), Denali Foundation ($43k), Tree Foundation Inc ($26k).
Does Bennett Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bennett Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bennett Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Bennett Family Foundation based?
Bennett Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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