California · Private foundation
Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $197k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% 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 | 11 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $15k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $14k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $14k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $13k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $13k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $16,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Teens4teens Help | $13,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Waterkeeper Alliance Inc | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation | $6,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Womens Transitional Living Center Inc Radiant Futures | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Seniorserv Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thomas House Temporary Shelter | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bentley-Shull Charitable 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation give?
- Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $20,029 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (13%), International (13%).
- Who are Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($16k), Indiana University Foundation ($16k), Teens4teens Help ($13k).
- Does Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation.
- Where is Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation based?
- Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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