Delaware · Private foundation
The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $638k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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 | 50 | $628k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $578k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $471k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $539k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $470k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $447k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $471k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $476k | 47% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc | $632,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $325,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The George Washington University | $223,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Johns Hopkins Hospital | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Colorectal Cancer Alliance | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| National Gallery of Art | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts | $105,000 | 3 | 0% |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | $101,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kuwait-America Foundation | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| American University | $89,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($785k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 142 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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Sami & Annie Totah Family Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Nora Roberts Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc
- How much does The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc give?
- The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc reported 54 grants totaling $637,599 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Medstar-Georgetown Medical Center Inc ($633k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($325k), The George Washington University ($223k).
- Does The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc based?
- The Dorothy G Bender Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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