New York · Private foundation
The Bender Family 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.
- $239k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Bender Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $239k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $248k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $189k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $218k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $236k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $196k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $203k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $207k | 79% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Institute of History and Art | $111,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy | $97,500 | 7 | 2% |
| University at Albany Foundation | $74,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Watervliet Civic Chest Inc | $67,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Refugee and Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Historic Albany Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Youth Fx Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Shaker Heritage Society | $41,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Washington Park Conservancy Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 31% |
| Baby Institute Inc | $38,500 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bender Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Review Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Carl E Touhey Foundation · John D Picotte Family Foundation (Formerly Equinox Foundation) · David & Candace Weir Foundation · Kiwi Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mvp Health Plan Inc
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Bender Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Bender Family Foundation 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.
About The Bender Family Foundation
- How much does The Bender Family Foundation give?
- The Bender Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $238,873 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bender Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Education (15%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are The Bender Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Albany Institute of History and Art ($111k), Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy ($98k), University at Albany Foundation ($75k).
- Does The Bender Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bender Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bender Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc, Review Foundation, Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.
- Where is The Bender Family Foundation based?
- The Bender Family Foundation is based in NY.
Play a game based on Bender Family’s filings →