Hawaii · Nonprofit
THE BENNETT FOUNDATION
THE BENNETT FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,803 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $331k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $26k
What The Bennett Foundation does
Mission
The Bennett Foundation's mission is to improve the health and well-being of children and their families.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
During the 2019-2020 school year we worked with HCAP Head Start classrooms, Chaminade University Lab School, Seagull Schools Ko Olina providing direct intervention for Teachers, Assistants, Family advocates (Head Start), and Administrators. Indirectly, we served families and students. We delivered professional development and coaching/mentoring for classroom curriculum and activity integration and family engagement, as well as resource referrals and connections. This included conducting monthly mini-workshops, networking, one on one follow up in the classroom w/ teaching staff, curriculum/activity planning, family engagement assistance to relate to classroom activities, and operation of Produce to Preschools mobile on-site market. Over the course of the year we served 24 HCAP Head Start classrooms at 22 different schools; directly reaching 60 teachers/administrators/family advocates each month, 480 students, and over 1,000 family members. Family engagement attendance increased at the end of the year to 85-100% at all of the sites we worked with. Beginning of the year attendance was only at 10-20%.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $11.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 THE BENNETT 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE BENNETT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 THE BENNETT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
80% of THE BENNETT FOUNDATION'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Hawaii, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like THE BENNETT FOUNDATION
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In Hawaii
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BENNETT FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BENNETT FOUNDATION?
- THE BENNETT FOUNDATION (Hawaii) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,803 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BENNETT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $62,803 in grants to THE BENNETT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BENNETT FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BENNETT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 5 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