· Private foundation
The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Towers Foundation | $18,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| American Parkinson Disease Assoc | $5,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation | $5,000 |
| PKD Foundation | $5,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $5,000 |
| ORT America | $5,000 |
| Jewish Family Services of New Haven | $5,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $5,000 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | $5,000 |
| Women's Health Research at Yale | $2,000 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven | $1,800 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTHE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +58%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +48%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BNBethesda Nursery Schoolone grant, 2022 · $10k
- OHOXFORD HOUSE OF CONNECTICUT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SCSlifka Centerone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 56 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.
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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 Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Mary Wade Home Incorporated: 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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