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Shirley Bennett 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR SCHOLARSHI | $4,000 |
| DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES | $4,000 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| HOLY GROUND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS IN | $3,000 |
| YMCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,829 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFSHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN CHILDREN9× · 2017–2025 · $28k
- WOWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR SCHOLARSHI9× · 2017–2025 · $27k
- DFDAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- GSGulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Incone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -11%
- COCONVENT OF THE VISITATION SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAone grant, 2018 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
To provide direct services to the community for the advancement and development of girls and young women.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouting is girl led, where girls work together and learn collaboratively and experientially. Girls work under the guidance, coaching…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts river valleys' purpose is to boldly lead as an antiracist organization that uplifts and empowers every girl to know their…
Girl scouts' mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts of greater los angeles ("gsgla the "council "girl scouts"), the largest girl-serving nonprofit in southern…
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, & character who make the world a better place
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
The mission of the international honor society beta gamma sigma is to honor student excellence in business education, develop forward-thinking business leaders, and foster a global community to be catalysts for good.
Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Palm Beach County and the most unlike its peers is Connor Moran Children's Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOLY GROUND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNOR MORAN CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Student Aces Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Christian Olsen Private Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Shirley Bennett 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ywca of Palm Beach County — 72% of income from government
- Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc — 9% of income from government
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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