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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $266k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANGE PARK OPERA | $265,880 |
| American Associates of the Old Vic Theatre Inc | $248,940 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY lONDON | $203,175 |
| KING BAUDOUIN Foundation US inc | $200,655 |
| SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $189,630 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY | $160,641 |
| THE Wallace Collection in America INC | $156,733 |
| THE Royal Oak Foundation Inc | $33,982 |
| Glyndebourne America Inc | $24,896 |
| BUXTON ARTS FESTIVAL | $20,193 |
| Cambridge in America | $17,300 |
| International Friends of THE London Library Inc | $5,694 |
| WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC | $5,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $1,299 |
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.
Your US giving — 62% of grant dollars ($4.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 38% that went abroad ($2.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Beyond the US — 38% of all-years giving ($2.9M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $2.0M · revenue +103% · 88% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC3× · 2023–2025 · $653k · revenue +123%
- SVSAVE VENICE INC3× · 2017–2020 · $38k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- OVOLD VIC THEATREone grant, 2022 · $229k
- SJST JAMES'S CHURCH PICCADILLYone grant, 2023 · $207k
- TNTHE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERYone grant, 2023 · $197k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The American Friends of the English Heritage was formed with the purpose of promoting the United Kingdom-Based charity English Heritage (ENGLISH-HERRITAGE.ORG.UK) in the United States through Educational activities and supporing English…
To encourage appreciation and understanding of the art of portraiture through support of the operations and activities of the national portrait gallery in london and its collaboration with american arts and academic institutions.
>to conduct activities which are exclusively charitable, literary, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. >to sponsor art exhibitions and loans of art works throughout the united states which…
The corporation is formed (i) to promote collaborations between the royal collection trust, and other publicly supported organizations which are closely related in purpose or function, in the united kingdom and institutions in the united…
The american trust for the british library (atbl) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the work of the british library, one of the world's greatest research libraries. the atbl provides financial and…
The primary objects of the fund are to educate the public about history, particularly the history of ships and seafaring in peace and war, from pre-history to today, and to educate the public about the story of time, astronomy and…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The fund was formed for the exclusive purpose of providing financial support to the southbank centre, a charitable trust created in great britain and registered with the charity commission of england and wales (no.298909). the fund is…
Raises funds for and makes grants to the national library of scotland and the national galleries of scotland in order to preserve the past for future generations; to record and preserve scottish culture, history, knowledge and ideas; and…
The american foundation for the national museums scotland was established to promote awareness,understanding and support for the work of national museums scotland.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Covent Garden the Royal Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 85 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE OLD VIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE WALLACE COLLECTION IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
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.
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
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 Bennett Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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