New Jersey · Nonprofit
BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,040 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($85,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $982k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $297k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Bentley Community Services Inc does
Mission
To provide support and encouragement to place families in crisis on the path to financial stability and security by providing (a) weekly goods and services including healthy and nutritious food provisions, toiletries and household products (b) offering in-house workshop instruction to inform and educate families in critical skills to enable moving forward and (c) by promoting an environment of accountability and volunteerism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weekly distribution of healthy foods to over 500 individuals per week, to offset cost of groceries and toiletries to families in financial crisis.
$960,197 spent100% of program spendingAgency Weekly Distribution Program-redistributed food/toiletries to other nonprofit agencies including local food pantries and Soup Kitchens not utilizable by Bentley participant families.
Adult Education Program-classes and workshops are offered to the participating families to help improve their situation including budgeting, financial planning,diet and nutrition and computer skills.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $960,197.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $80k to $104k (+31%).
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.
100% of BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Dorothy Stearns
Pres/Exec Dir.
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $18k → $52k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’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.
How concentrated its funding is
BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 32% · 2019 36% · 2020 38% · 2021 98% · 2022 69% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $52k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $245k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $297,040 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($85,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $297,040 in grants to BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $85,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENTLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 10 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