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The Bench Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Animals$4kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$1kPublic Benefit$1kEducation$518Youth Development$500Housing & Shelter$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOICES OF FLORIDA FUND$1,000
THE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $300 → 13%NATCHEZ CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $1k → 31%SECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY INC: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 3 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +370% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$7k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+370%
+36%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther

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

  • LS
    LEAD SRQ
    3× · 2019–2023 · $3k
  • HS
    HONOR SANCTUARY INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +125%
  • SL
    SATCHELS LAST RESORT
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +370%

Funded once

  • LP
    Lewis P Tabarrini Childrens Music Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +326%
  • HI
    HAVUHELPED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • DO
    Donors of Distinction Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
RAGS2RESCUED

No dog should endure pain & suffering of a life of abandonment & neglect

2
The Phyllis and Perry Schwartz Foundation
3
Ozzie Albies Foundation Inc

Our mission is to end the needless suffering some animals endure. we help pets in need through sheltering, adoption, education, spay/neuter, and community outreach.

Animals
4
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
5
Lawrence & Lillian Solomon Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation Inc
Education
7
Chloesfundlimited

Chloe's Fund is two fold: Providing financial resources and emergency care for Florence Lauderdale Animal Services animals and supporting Shelter Diversion in our community.

Animals
8
The Louise and Claude Rosenberg Jr Family Foundation
9
The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc
11
Love From Louie Inc

It is the mission of, love from louie, to remove dogs that are suffering physically and emotionally inside the shelter system and provide them with complete medical care and a nurturing home environment to heal and rehabilitate before…

Animals
12
Lazare and Charlotte Kaplan Foundation

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEAD SRQ — $3,000 · OtherLEAD SRQHAVUHELPED INC — $1,250 · OtherHAVUHELPED INCDonors of Distinction Inc — $1,085 · OtherDonors of Distinction IncVOICES OF FLORIDA FUND INC — $1,000 · OtherVOICES OF FLORIDA FUND INCDESIGNING DAUGHTERS OF SARASOTA — $901 · OtherDESIGNING DAUGHTERS OF SARASOTA+2 more — $385 · OtherHONOR SANCTUARY INC — $2,258 · AnimalsHONOR SANCTUARY INCSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $1,550 · AnimalsSATCHELS LAST RESORTNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $1,000 · Human ServicesNATCHEZ CHILD…SECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY — $500 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANCE…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $300 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…Lewis P Tabarrini Childrens Music Foundation Inc — $1,500 · PhilanthropyLewis P Taba…THE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $250 · PhilanthropyTHE LOUIS AN…PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $518 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 · Health
Other$7,621Animals$3,808Human Services$1,800Philanthropy$1,750International$518Health$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC — $2,258 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATCHEZ CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED — $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co 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 The Bench Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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