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Bentley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$63kHealth$29kInternational$13kEducation$8kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$930Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$700
Median grant
5
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Freckled Strawberry$3,000
Chester County Economic Development Foundation$3,000
Gaudenzia Inc$3,000
Help Hope Live$2,500
Nurturing Minds Inc$1,250
Kane County 4H Foundation$750
Individual grant recipient$700
Smile Train$500
Savage Sisters$500
Indian River State College Foundation$250
Steps 4 Hope$250
Peter's Place$250
Thorncroft Therapeutic Horseback Riding$200
Covenant House$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Surrey Services For Senior: $1k → 6%Wounded Warrior Project: $50 → 17%LifeLine Pilots: $500 → 14%Surrey Services For Senior: $500 → 6%Association Services for the Blind: $500 → 22%Wings of Success: $200 → 6%Savage Sisters: $500 → 10%Quest Therapeutic Services: $1k → 6%Young Moms: $250 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$116k · 20 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
20

Total granted

$116k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +93%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +19%
  • GI
    GAUDENZIA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • ID
    IRISH DIASPORA CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +14%
  • MR
    Mission Relief
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • QT
    QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +58%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
2
Pocono Health System

We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.

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3
Westchester Institute for Human Development

The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…

Health
4
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
5
The Baptist Home of Philadelphia

The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…

Human Services
6
Chester County Hospital & Health System

The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.

Health
7
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
8
Center for Community Resources Inc

To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…

Health
9
Hemophilia Center of Western Pa

To provide expert comprehensive multidisciplinary care to patients with hemophilia and other bleeding and clotting disorders.

Health
10
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
11
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment
12
Meridian Health Services Corp

To help make our communities healthier through a focus on whole person health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Malvern Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%42%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr20%32%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr13%14%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 42% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
12%
4,576/37,132

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRECKLED STRAWBERRY — $50,850 · OtherFRECKLED STRAWBERRYSMILE TRAIN INC — $11,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC+21 more — $13,930 · Other+21 moreHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $6,750 · EducationHAVERFORD S…NURTURING MINDS INC — $5,850 · EducationNURTURING M…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480 · Education+2 more — $350 · EducationGAUDENZIA INC — $8,020 · HealthGAUDENZIA I…HELPHOPELIVE INC — $3,500 · HealthHELPHOPELIV…GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK — $1,000 · HealthGOOD SHEPHE…+2 more — $450 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Community ImprovementCHESTER CO…LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 · PhilanthropySURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INC — $500 · Human ServicesSAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC — $500 · Human ServicesVisionLink — $500 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMS — $250 · Human ServicesWings for Success Inc — $200 · Human Services+1 more — $50 · Human ServicesIRISH DIASPORA CENTER — $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$75,780Education$13,430Health$12,970Community Improvement$12,000Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$4,500Arts & Culture$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC — $8,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $6,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC — $5,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRISH DIASPORA CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC — $1,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPETER'S PLACE — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKane County 4-H Foundation — $750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD WORKS INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION ADVOCATES — $580 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN CENTER — $500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVisionLink — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation — $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK HILL COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE — $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNGMOMS — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOWEN J ROBERTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWings for Success Inc — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…E Murdoch Family Foun…Ethel S C Smith No 5 …Chester County Commun…Connelly FoundationHankin FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…United Way of Greater…The Becket Family Fou…Daniels Family Founda…United Way of Chester…Quest for the Best
The Philadelphia FoundationPA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw · Chester County Community Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Hankin Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Becket Family Foundation · Daniels Family Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Quest for the Best

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bentley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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