California · Private foundation
The 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $156,733
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $265,880
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations The Bennett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k 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 | 13 | $1.3M | 77% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $1.1M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $828k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $545k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $94k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $28k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $2.3M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $446k | 71% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of the British Museum Inc | $2,032,745 | 2 | 88% |
| American Friends of the National Gallery London Inc | $652,911 | 3 | 3% |
| The American Associates of the Old Vic Theatre Inc | $248,940 | 1 | n/a |
| Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation | $189,630 | 1 | n/a |
| International Friends of the Natural History | $160,641 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wallace Collection in America Inc | $156,733 | 1 | n/a |
| British Schools & Universities Foundation Inc | $50,792 | 1 | 0% |
| Save Venice Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 1% |
| The Royal Oak Foundation Inc | $33,982 | 1 | 1% |
| Bird Conservation Fund | $31,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bennett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Bennett Foundation
- How much does The Bennett Foundation give?
- The Bennett Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,534,018 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bennett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), International (8%), Science & Tech (4%).
- Who are The Bennett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Friends of the British Museum Inc ($2.0M), American Friends of the National Gallery London Inc ($653k), The American Associates of the Old Vic Theatre Inc ($249k).
- Does The Bennett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bennett 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 Bennett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Deborah Loeb Brice Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Bennett Foundation based?
- The Bennett Foundation is based in CA.
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