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The Bentley Foundation at a glance

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The Bentley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$383kAnimals$226kHuman Services$163kCommunity Improvement$40kHousing & Shelter$25kArts & Culture$20kReligion$20kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter$100,000
Adaptive Performance Center$50,000
Child Bridge$20,000
Catalyst for Change$20,000
Horses Spirit Healing$5,000
Community Leadership & Development Inc$5,000
The Big J Show Cares$5,000
Red Lodge Community Foundation$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Child Bridge: $20k → 18%Child Bridge: $20k → 18%Community Leadership & Development Inc: $25k → 9%Child Bridge: $20k → 18%Child Bridge: $15k → 18%Child Bridge: $10k → 18%Child Bridge: $10k → 18%Community Leadership & Development Inc: $10k → 9%Family Service: $7k → 9%Community Leadership & Development Inc: $5k → 9%Adullam House Ministries: $5k → 9%Adult Resource Alliance: $5k → 9%Dog Tag Buddies: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 11 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$846k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+15%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AP
    ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $283k · revenue +240%
  • YV
    YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER
    5× · 2020–2025 · $226k · revenue +303%
  • CB
    CHILD BRIDGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • HF
    habitat for humanity
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • FU
    Fromberg United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ranch Hands Rescue

To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.

Animals
2
Yellowstone Boys & Girls Ranch

Caring people, preparing youth for life.

Health
3
Elevate Youth Services Inc

Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…

Human Services
4
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

—
5
Fulfillment House Inc
Health
6
Youth Dynamics Inc

Youth dynamics provides family focused behavioral health treatment founded on the principles of an actively caring and trauma sensitive culture in which people can realize their full potential.

—
7
Love and Sonshine Ministries

To provide safe housing for homeless pregnant teens and teenage mothers.

Religion
8
Center for Restorative Youth Justice

The center for restorative youth justice (cryj) works to actively engage youth, victimes, families, communities in restorative programming that interrupts cycles of harm. our programs create opportunities for at-risk youth to deepen…

Human Services
9
Stable Recovery Inc

To provide a safe and stable living environment for men in early recovery. we are a peer driven therapeutic community with a focus on equine-related employment opportunities.

Health
10
Cornerstone Montgomery

Empowering people living with mental health and substance use disorders to thrive in their community through collaboration, treatment, education and advocacy.

—
11
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
12
Child & Family Services of Yuma Inc

Child & Family Services provides a wide continuum of outpatient services for children and thier families with behavioral/mental health needs, in aspiration of fulfilling the family's individualized goals. Right Turn provides transitional…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Big J Show Cares. 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

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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER: $282,500 · OtherADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTERRed Lodge Community Foundation: $15,000 · OtherSPECIAL K RANCH: $11,500 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · Other+2 moreYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $225,850 · AnimalsYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SH…CHILD BRIDGE INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesCHILD BRIDGE INCCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP …FAMILY SERVICE: $21,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE+3 more: $15,000 · Human Services+3 moreCATALYST FOR CHANGE: $65,000 · HealthCATALYST FOR …HORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC: $35,000 · HealthHORSES SPIRIT…FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $10,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMIS…FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $35,000 · ReligionBIG J SHOW CARES: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$329,000Animals$225,850Human Services$171,500Health$110,000Religion$35,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE CENTER: $282,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetYELLOWSTONE VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $225,850 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC: $95,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCATALYST FOR CHANGE: $65,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHORSES SPIRITS HEALING INC: $35,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG J SHOW CARES: $20,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetSPECIAL K RANCH: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADULLAM HOUSE MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetADULT RESOURCE ALLIANCE OF YELLOWSTONE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOG TAG BUDDIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

First Interstate Banc…Gianforte Family Char…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…The Mary Alice Fortin…Charles M Bair Family…Harnish FoundationTown Pump Charitable …Fair View FoundationBillings Community Fo…Donald & Carol Robert…The Martin Family Fou…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Charles M Bair Family Trust · Harnish Foundation · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Fair View Foundation · Billings Community Foundation · Donald & Carol Roberts Foundation in Memory of Virginia K Weston Inc · The Martin Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bentley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bentley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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