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BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,250 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$3.1M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Bennington Public Schools Foundation does

Mission

To provide grants, scholarships and support programs benefiting sutudents, families and teachers of the bennington public school district, including before and after school child care programming, classroom grants for teachers, study centers at the middle and high school, scholarships for graduating seniors and teacher development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation of the all stars kids child care program serving families in the bennington nebraska community with before and after school child care.

    $1,167,209 spent$1,522,034 earned by the program
    72% of program spending
  2. Classroom grants and scholarship assistance.

    $459,573 spentof which $459,573 as grants
    28% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,626,782.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($874k) Expenses 100 ($638k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 114 ($996k) Expenses 127 ($811k) Net assets 111 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 131 ($1.1M) Expenses 138 ($882k) Net assets 138 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 98 ($852k) Expenses 140 ($894k) Net assets 149 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 152 ($1.3M) Expenses 151 ($965k) Net assets 179 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 158 ($1.4M) Expenses 202 ($1.3M) Net assets 150 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 159 ($1.0M) Net assets 162 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 199 ($1.7M) Expenses 240 ($1.5M) Net assets 198 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 217 ($1.9M) Expenses 291 ($1.9M) Net assets 206 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (217)Expenses (291)Net assets (206)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+18%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.7M
$2.3M
$2.6M
$3.1M
$3.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$236k
’17
$185k
’18
$261k
’19
−$42k
’20
$366k
’21
$98k
’22
$53k
’23
$205k
’24
$38k
’25
2.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Blake Thompson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101011101112141513
Joined·+2+2+1+4+4+5+4+3
No longer listed·21233335
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $700.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 1 state in all.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bennington Public Schools · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,250 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($2,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,250 in grants to BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENNINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing