· Private foundation
Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| TEENS4TEENSHELP | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $529 |
| SURFRIDERS | $500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OC | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
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 +93% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +98%
Indiana University Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +97%- THTEENS4TEENS HELP4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $1k
- THTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +32%
- KKCETone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
See schedule oto serve the public by:- assuring the qualifications of health care professionals- providing primary-source verification of credentials of health careprofessionals, as they serve throughout the world- supporting international…
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. the organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEENS4TEENS HELP ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bentley-Shull Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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