Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Bentley 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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Bentley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $21k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $16k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $29k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $46k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $17k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $4k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $5k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $4k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freckled Strawberry | $50,850 | 3 | n/a |
| Gaudenzia Inc | $19,520 | 4 | 0% |
| Chester County Economic Development Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lifetime Wells International | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Haverford School | $6,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Nurturing Minds Inc | $5,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Helphopelive Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Irish Diaspora Center | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Therapeutic Horseback Riding Inc | $1,700 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bentley Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Bentley Foundation
- How much does Bentley Foundation give?
- Bentley Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $20,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bentley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Health (22%), International (10%).
- Who are Bentley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freckled Strawberry ($51k), Gaudenzia Inc ($20k), Chester County Economic Development Foundation Inc ($12k).
- Does Bentley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bentley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bentley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, E Murdoch Family Foundation, Ethel S C Smith No 5 Charitable Tw.
- Where is Bentley Foundation based?
- Bentley Foundation is based in PA.
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