· Private foundation
Bentley Fund
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,300 |
| NO FARM VT | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,200 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $2,400 |
| INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $2,400 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $2,261 |
| PEAR YOUTH MENTORING | $2,200 |
| ROXBURY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| PROMISE WORLD WIDE | $2,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,200 |
| DCC FOUNDATION AER | $2,100 |
| COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,100 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL | $2,068 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 22 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMILLBROOK SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +46%
- IMINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +118%
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MKMONTCLAIR KIMBERLEY ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +17%
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SPShadhika Projectone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -86%
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 93 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 MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALFRED UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLGATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFS-USA INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bentley Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bentley Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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