· Private foundation
The Bengier Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Exploratorium | $250,000 |
| Global Citizen Year | $125,000 |
| Summer Search | $100,000 |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | $60,000 |
| Santa Fe Institute | $50,000 |
| UCSF MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY | $25,000 |
| Global Glimpse | $20,000 |
| AIM High | $15,000 |
| SMART Program | $15,000 |
| Mercy High School Burlingame | $15,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco | $10,000 |
| Bay Scholars | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 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
SANTA FE INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $270k · revenue +402%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +10%
- GGGlobal Glimpse6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- BCBOSTON COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $125k
- SFSFSU Foundationone grant, 2019 · $45k
- SMSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -7%
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The urban school of san francisco seeks to ignite a passion for learning, inspiring its students to become self-motivated, enthusiastic participants in their education - both in high school and beyond.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Tilting Futures Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE ↗
- Who funds Global Glimpse ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds BAY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds UCSF Medical Center Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCES TEAM INC (SMART) ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bengier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bengier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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