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Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
QUINTESSENCE THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
NATURAL LANDS TRUST INCORPORATED$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
PA
NJ
CA
MD
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

+38%
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
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.

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%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -66%
  • SI
    SISTERSONG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.

04Its field

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Lida FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Cigna Group Found…The Robert Wood Johns…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Verizon Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethany Asplundh Family Foundation Dba Bendita Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 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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