· Private foundation
Oscar & Anna Bentley Charitable Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k12 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAZON INC A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER | $12,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTE INC | $5,000 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY | $4,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $4,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $4,000 |
| THE CAMPAGNA CENTER | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $2,500 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
Convergence is the leading organization bridging divides to solve critical issues. with our time-tested collaborative problem-solving methodology, we bring people together across ideological, political, & identity lines to improve the…
Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Campagna Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Oscar & Anna Bentley Charitable 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.
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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