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Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita 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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$425kArts & Culture$277kHealth$63kInternational$52kCivil Rights$50kEnvironment$35kAnimals$27kCrime & Legal$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$665k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPHILL SPECIAL SCHOOL INC$50,000
QUINTESSENCE THEATRE COMPANY$45,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$8,000
DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL$6,000
CAMPHILL SPECIAL SCHOOL INC$5,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST INCORPORATED$5,000
QUINTESSENCE THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$5,000
SAFEBAE ORG$2,200
GEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$2,000
THE AARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CEN$1,000
THE ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK INC$1,000
CITIZEN ADVOCACY OF CHESTER COUNTY$200
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SISTER SONG INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
AL
GA

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$880k · 15 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$880k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationAnimalsCivil RightsInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TC
    THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $397k · revenue +38%
  • QT
    QUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $248k · revenue +137%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • LT
    LANTERN THEATER COMPANY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -2%
  • FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

4
Opera Philadelphia

To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

8
Advocacy Institute Inc

Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.

Civil Rights
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

10
Zoological Society of Philadelphia

At philadelphia zoo, our mission is to flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, transformational memories are made, and our passion for conservation saves wildlife (see schedule o).guided by a three-year strategic plan,…

Animals
11
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc

The aclu is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to defending and protecting our constitutional and civil rights and personal freedoms.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsLand Conservation Organizat…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Community Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%36%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr17%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr17%47%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,135

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $396,598 · EducationTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INCACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $14,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC — $247,875 · Arts & CultureQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INCLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureLANTERN THEATER COMPANYARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $8,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $40,032 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Civil RightsGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $36,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 · InternationalSAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentNatural Lands Trust Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentWILDAID INC — $11,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $10,000 · AnimalsAARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $6,000 · AnimalsPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS — $14,000 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE — $10,000 · OtherSafeBae Org Inc — $9,200 · OtherSISTERSONG INC — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $3,000 · Other
Education$411,598Arts & Culture$276,875Health$68,000Civil Rights$50,032International$41,500Environment$35,000Animals$27,000Other$46,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CAMPHILL SCHOOL INC — $396,598 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC — $247,875 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC — $40,032 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $36,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetSAVE LONG BEACH ISLAND INC — $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY — $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDAID INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafeBae Org Inc — $9,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARK WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN ADVOCACY OF CHESTER COUNTY — $1,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAfter Innocence — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIMBERTON FIRE COMPANY — $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William Penn FoundationPA17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Lida Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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