How much does Tom W Bennett Estate give?

Tom W Bennett Estate reported 24 grants totaling $1,166,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tom W Bennett Estate fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (12%).

Who are Tom W Bennett Estate's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Louis Childrens Hospital ($436k), Epworth Children & Family Services Inc ($436k), Bethesda Health Group Inc ($436k).

Does Tom W Bennett Estate fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tom W Bennett Estate 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 Tom W Bennett Estate?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Co Tr Ua Viola J Reynolds, Leo R Buder Foundation Trust.

Where is Tom W Bennett Estate based?

Tom W Bennett Estate is based in TX.

Tom W Bennett Estate

Tom W Bennett Estate at a glance

· Private foundation

Tom W Bennett Estate

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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$87k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.2MHealth$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MYouth Development$872kEmployment$662kEducation$654kPublic Safety & Disaster$436kReligion$218kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k10 grants · $292k
$50k–250k14 grants · $875k

$58,313

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY	$87,469
Individual grant recipient	$87,469
YMCA OF ST LOUIS	$58,313
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$58,313
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS	$58,313
EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES	$58,313
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES	$58,313
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$58,313
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES	$58,313
BARNARD CANCER INSTITUTE	$58,313
MARYGROVE SCHOOL	$58,313
BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC	$58,313
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$58,313
SALVATION ARMY	$58,313
THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND	$36,894

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.6M · 31 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.6M

$56k

Still filing today

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsOther

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

BH
BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $436k · revenue +237%
GS
GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES
6× · 2020–2025 · $312k · revenue +98%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +27%

Funded once

YO
YMCA OF ST LOUIS - GATEWAY REGION YMCA
one grant, 2022 · $56k

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.

St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health

Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.

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St Luke's Des Peres Episcopal- Presbyterian Hospital

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health

United Way of Greater St Louis Inc

United Way of Greater St. Louis mobilizes the community with one goal in mind - helping people live their best possible lives.

Philanthropy

Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education

St Louis Society for the Blind

The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.

Health

Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc

Girl scouts of wisconsin southeast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the preeminent membership-based organization dedicated to helping all girls develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world. girl scouting…

Youth Development

Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health

Ssm Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lighthouse for the Blind. 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

12 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. 12 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

9/12

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$7,070,977Human Services$795,283Youth Development$395,855Education$217,952Animals$210,215Philanthropy$32,023

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.

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.

United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Co Tr Ua Viola J Reynolds · Leo R Buder Foundation Trust · Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Graybar Foundation · East Missouri Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Tom W Bennett Estate funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom W Bennett Estate. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home