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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 FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$665k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$140k17%
FY202415$215k27%
FY202312$207k0%
FY202213$174k23%
FY202110$116k20%
FY202016$104kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Camphill School Inc$396,59861%
Quintessence Theatre Group Inc$247,87554%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$50,00050%
American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania Inc$40,03221%
Georges Malaika Foundation Inc$36,50064%
Save Long Beach Island Inc$30,000216%
Lantern Theater Company$15,00011%
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends$14,0004n/a
Academy in Manayunk$14,00040%
Arden Theatre Company$13,00050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSistersong Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFutures Without Violence: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbington Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation

How much does Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation give?
Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $140,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (29%), Health (7%).
Who are Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Camphill School Inc ($397k), Quintessence Theatre Group Inc ($248k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation ($50k).
Does Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Chubb Charitable Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation based?
Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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