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Bennett Family Foundation at a glance

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Bennett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$914k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$25,000
PEN AMERICA$21,880
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND$10,000
IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES$10,000
THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES$5,000
TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$1,150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
RI
CA
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 11 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
24

Total granted

$431k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+23%

Still filing today

45%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentInternationalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $207k · revenue +30%
  • CU
    COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES
    3× · 2018–2020 · $62k
  • DF
    DENALI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue -49% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • EB
    Empowered by Lightgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • PE
    POLAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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3
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Center for Arts Design and Social Research Incorporated

The center for arts, design and social research is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education that provides instruction in and conducts research on the relationship of art and design to global societies. the center offers…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
Graywolf Press

Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…

Arts & Culture
7
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
8
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
12
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wild and Free Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $206,880 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INCDENALI FOUNDATION: $42,500 · Arts & CultureDENALI FOUNDATIONIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES: $62,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TRUSTEESIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $20,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGGROW KENYA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherGROW KENYA FOUNDATIONPOLAR EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+20 more: $61,700 · Other+20 moreTREE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · EducationTREE FOUNDATION…ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE…OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY OF SAN ANTONIO: $19,500 · EducationOUR LADY OF THE…STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN GAYNOR …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…Empowered by Light: $25,000 · InternationalCheetah Conservation Fund: $10,000 · AnimalsWILD AND FREE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · AnimalsEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesART SCIENCE RESEARCH LABORATORY INC: $7,500 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$266,880Other$213,700Education$85,500International$25,000Animals$11,000Human Services$10,000Science & Tech$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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