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Bente Engelstoft 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ali Forney Center | $5,165 |
| Pasadena Humane Society | $1,050 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,037 |
| LA Food Bank | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +773% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INC2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +15%
- TPTony's Place2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +773%
- PPPlanned Parenthood2× · 2022–2023 · $2k
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%- LFLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -11%
- HHHAHA HEHE GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +29%
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.
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Lafh permanent housing corp. i (casa central) has been established to own a 6-unit complex located in los angeles, california, which provides permanent housing for families with low income.
The mission of the organization is to own the south campus of l.a. family housing, a real estate property leased to l.a. family housing for the purpose of operatingtwo essential programs: bridge housing (bh) and the family solutions center…
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
American family housing provides a continuum of housing and an array of services to support homeless and low-income families and adults to secure a stable home, to be an active part of their community, and to achieve a self-sustaining way…
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To develop and promote innovative fundraising tools and practices that utilize internet technology among social welfare organizations for the purpose of increasing grassroots engagement in social welfare activities, as well as…
Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Allies in hope (aih), formerly known as aids foundation houston, inc. (afh), is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1982 and was among texas' first organizations dedicated to hiv prevention education and services. aih provides stabilizing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Family Housing Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Fulshear Police Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Tony's Place ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HAHA HEHE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Fulshear Police Foundation ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bente Engelstoft Foundation 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.
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.
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