Nevada · Private foundation
Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,560
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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 | 26 | $170k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $225k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $193k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $183k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $185k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $183k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $193k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $186k | 62% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $507,134 | 8 | 0% |
| Bishop Manogue Catholic School | $154,250 | 9 | n/a |
| Nevada Museum of Art | $135,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Little Flower School | $85,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Sage Ridge School | $51,665 | 7 | 0% |
| Institute for Young Dramatic Voices Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Reno Philharmonic Association Inc | $37,470 | 8 | 0% |
| Artown | $33,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc | $26,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Northern Nevada Italian Association Inc | $25,200 | 4 | 63% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($445k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Renown Health · Tahoe Community Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation
- How much does Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation give?
- Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $174,560 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (19%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nevada Reno Foundation ($507k), Bishop Manogue Catholic School ($154k), Nevada Museum of Art ($136k).
- Does Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, The E L Cord Foundation.
- Where is Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation based?
- Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation is based in NV.
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