Delaware · Private foundation
The Bess 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.
- $21k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $572k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $22k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $18k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $16k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $17k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $13k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $8,700 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $8,675 | 9 | 0% |
| Feeding South Florida Inc | $8,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $8,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Newark School of the Arts | $8,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The New York and Presbyterian Hospital | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Caridad Center Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Creative Education | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Urban League of Palm Beach County Inc | $7,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $6,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bess Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Bess Family Foundation
- How much does The Bess Family Foundation give?
- The Bess Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $21,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bess Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are The Bess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($9k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($9k), Feeding South Florida Inc ($9k).
- Does The Bess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bess 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 Bess Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Bess Family Foundation based?
- The Bess Family Foundation is based in DE.
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