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Richard Bennett Trust at a glance

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Richard Bennett Trust

Aid to individuals and organizations in the vicinity where the trust is maintained.

$183k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$216kHealth$160kInternational$100kHuman Services$85kFood & Nutrition$75kArts & Culture$63kRecreation & Sports$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $134,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $182,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $48,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS FOUNDATION$28,000
SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC$10,000
THE GENIEVE CENTER$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH GREATER VA$10,000
SUFFOLK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CENTER$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
EDMARC INC$8,000
CHKD$7,500
SUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS$7,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$6,000
COALITION AGAINST POVERTY$6,000
CASA PROGRAMS OF SE VA$6,000
RED CROSS$6,000
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%EVERYAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%RED CROSS: $6k → 12%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$796k · 13 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$796k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+90%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • AC
    ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $216k · revenue +48%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +7%
  • SC
    Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • EF
    EVERYAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -48%
  • LL
    Little League Baseball Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +90%
  • NS
    NANSEMOND SUFFOLK POP WARNER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County Inc

To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.

Crime & Legal
2
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
3
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County Ny Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of suffolk county, ny creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
4
Hope for Suffolk

We exist to create environments and opportunities in which holistic transformation takes place through relationships, experiences, and reflection.

Community Improvement
5
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
6
Children's Haven of Southwest Misso

The mission of children's haven is to provide temporary shelter to children in a safe, secure environment while their parents resolve a family crisis. each year hundreds of children ages birth through 17 years receive the nurturing care of…

Youth Development
7
Transitions Family Violence Services

The mission of transitions family violence services (tfvs) is to build safe and healthy families on the virginia peninsula by providing services to adult and child victims of domestic violence and human trafficking. we work to increase…

—
8
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
9
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
—
10
The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp

The family pantry's mission is to provide food and clothing to those in need without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, residence, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran, or any other status.

Food & Nutrition
11
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
12
Southwest Georgia Children's Alliance Inc

Southwest georgia children's alliance, inc. is a nonprofit corporation organized under the georgia nonprofit corporation act, having for its principal purpose is to be the prominent regional collaborative community resource for children…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Virginia; the most unlike its peers is Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $216,000 · EducationACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $83,500 · HealthWESTERN TIDEWATER FRE…EDMARC INC: $59,000 · HealthEDMARC INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $10,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIO…Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $7,500 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $100,000 · InternationalTHE SALVATION…THE GENIEVE SHELTER: $56,500 · OtherTHE GENIEVE SHELTERMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC: $12,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SU…SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 · OtherSUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETI…FORKIDS INC: $15,000 · OtherFORKIDS INCVOICES FOR KIDS CASA PROGRAM OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA: $12,000 · OtherVOICES FOR KIDS CASA …+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $54,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…COALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION …EVERYAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesEVERYAGE F…Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $62,500 · Food & NutritionSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $58,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$216,000Health$160,000International$100,000Other$160,500Human Services$76,000Food & Nutrition$62,500Arts & Culture$58,000

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 budgetACCESS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $216,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $100,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC: $83,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSuffolk Christian Fellowship Center: $62,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetEDMARC INC: $59,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSUFFOLK CENTER FOR CULTURAL ARTS FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GENIEVE SHELTER: $56,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $55,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFORKIDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOALITION AGAINST POVERTY IN SUFFOLK INC: $12,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVOICES FOR KIDS CASA PROGRAM OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA: $12,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER VIRGINIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVERYAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $7,500 over 1y, 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.

Suffolk FoundationObici Healthcare Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…Hampton Roads Communi…Sentara HealthThe Pruden FoundationThe Violet H Greco Fo…Birdsong Charitable F…United Way of South H…Birdsong Trust FundMary C Henninger Hadd…Beazley Foundation In…
Suffolk FoundationVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Suffolk Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Sentara Health · The Pruden Foundation · The Violet H Greco Foundation Inc · Birdsong Charitable Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Birdsong Trust Fund · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · Beazley Foundation Incorporated

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 Richard Bennett Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Bennett Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Richard Bennett Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Richard Bennett Trust 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 18 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 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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