Massachusetts · Private foundation
Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable 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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $93k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $65k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $70k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| South Shore Community Action Council Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape and Islands United Way Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Calmer Choice Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Duffy Health Center Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cape Abilities Inc | $2,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Maritime Museuminc | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Gosnold Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation
- How much does Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation give?
- Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (37%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($105k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($45k), South Shore Community Action Council Inc ($35k).
- Does Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable 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 Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation based?
- Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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