· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ali Forney Center | $5,165 |
| Pasadena Humane Society | $1,050 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,037 |
| LA Food Bank | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +773% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bente Engelstoft Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bente Engelstoft Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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