· Private foundation
Bentley Holden 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 SO | $8,500 |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS | $7,600 |
| HOLYOKE CC MUSIC DEPT | $5,200 |
| UNIV OF CHICAGO | $5,100 |
| OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE | $5,100 |
| KIPP FOUNDATIONELIZABETH TIJERINA | $4,400 |
| WIKEMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $4,400 |
| PALOUSE PRAIRIE CHARTER SCHOOL | $4,300 |
| FRIENDS OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARY | $4,200 |
| SWC NEW EARTH INSTITUTE | $4,200 |
| STAND UP FOR YOUTH TUSCON | $4,200 |
| MARIST COLLEGE | $4,100 |
| SPECTRUM YOUTH CENT VT | $3,300 |
| CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM | $3,300 |
| CHILDRENS HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE | $3,200 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
54 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMARIST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $49k · revenue +52%
- OCOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +33%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- UCUNIV CHICAGO ALUMNI OFFone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DCDUTCHESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +73%
- PGPROJECT GUTENBERGone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 70 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.
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- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
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- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GUTENBERG LITERARY ARCHIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL GHENT INC ↗
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- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PALOUSE-CLEARWATER ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE 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: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · James J McCann Charitable Trust · Plymouth Hill Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bentley Holden Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bentley Holden Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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