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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$63kHealth$29kInternational$13kEducation$8kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$930Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gaudenzia Inc$11,500
FAMILY FORWARD$3,500
HOWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION$2,500
Help Hope Live$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
GOOD WORKS INC$500
THE SOURCE$500
Indian River State College Foundation$300
HIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION$250
SUPPORT CENTER FOR CHILD ADVOCATES$250
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 (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. Its 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
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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
22

Total granted

$130k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • GI
    GAUDENZIA INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +93%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +19%

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%
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
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
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
3
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.

—
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
Chester County Hospital & Health System

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

Health
6
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
7
Hemophilia Center of Western Pa

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

Health
8
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
9
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
10
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
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
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Works Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRECKLED STRAWBERRY: $50,850 · OtherFRECKLED STRAWBERRYSMILE TRAIN INC: $11,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCFAMILY FORWARD: $3,500 · Other+25 more: $18,430 · Other+25 moreGAUDENZIA INC: $19,520 · HealthGAUDENZIA INCHELPHOPELIVE INC: $4,500 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INCGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $450 · HealthHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $6,750 · EducationHAVERFORD …NURTURING MINDS INC: $5,850 · EducationNURTURING …INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $550 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $480 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCHESTER C…LIFETIME WELLS INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 · PhilanthropySURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesQUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesVisionLink: $500 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INC: $500 · Human ServicesSAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $500 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMS: $250 · Human ServicesWings for Success Inc: $200 · Human Services+1 more: $50 · Human ServicesIRISH DIASPORA CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$83,780Health$25,470Education$13,730Community Improvement$12,000Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$4,500Arts & Culture$2,500

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 budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $19,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $11,000 over 7y, 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: $4,500 over 3y, 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 budgetGOOD WORKS INC: $1,200 over 3y, 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 budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKane County 4-H Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY CONSERVATION ADVOCATES: $580 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN CENTER: $500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVisionLink: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNGMOMS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOWEN J ROBERTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUCK HILL COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Bentley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bentley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 49 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home