· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +168%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shirley Bennett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shirley Bennett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ywca of Palm Beach County: 72% of income from government
- Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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