The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc
Westbrook, CT · EIN 26-1133956. Reported 93 grants totalling $319,360 to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $750 and $5,000; the smallest was $25 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Foundation Inc | New Haven, CT | $54,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven | Woodbridge, CT | $30,500 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mozaic Senior Lkife | Bridgeport, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ort America | New York, NY | $21,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hadassah Connecticut | West Orange, NJ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Towers Foundation | New Haven, CT | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Anti Defamation League | New York, NY | $11,521 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Parkinson Disease Assoc | Staten Island, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bethesda Nursery School | New Haven, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Public Radio | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation | Hagerstown, MD | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oxford House of Connecticut | New Haven, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood | Manchester, CT | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of New Haven | New Haven, CT | $8,240 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Women's Health Research at Yale | New Haven, CT | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| ASPCA | Washington, DC | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hartford Hospital 2023 | Hartford, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pkd Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England | Manchester, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Simon Weisenthal Center | Los Angeles, CA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Campaigh School at Yale | New Cannan, CT | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leukemia & Lymphoma Society | White Plains, NY | $3,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Jewish World Service | New York, NY | $2,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Diabetes Assoc of New England | Merrifield, VA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greenpeace Fund | Washington, DC | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sandy Hook Promise | Newtown, CT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum | Washington, DC | $1,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence | San Francisco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish National Fund | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Congregation Beth El Kesser Israel | New Haven, CT | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Save the Sound | New Haven, CT | $450 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek | Chester, CT | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hand in Hand | Portland, OR | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Cannan, CT | $200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Experiment Station Associatesinc | New Haven, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Katherine Hepburn Cultural Center | Old Saybrook, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Y for Humanity - the Yale Campaign | New Haven, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale Enviromental 360 | New Haven, CT | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Historical Society | New Haven, CT | $54 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Experiment Station Associates Inc | New Haven, CT | $25 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
23 of 42 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 75%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Mozaic Senior Lkife
Elderly Hursing Home Services - Tower Foundation Inc
Senior Quality of Life Programs - Towers Foundation
2024 Ground Floor Renovation - Bethesda Nursery School
Support Programs Services - Hartford Hospital 2023
Support Urology Kinney Fd - Planned Parenthood
Suppport Program Services
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 20 | $58,885 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $55,750 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $90,540 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 29 | $114,185 | $1,800 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc has 2 of them, worth $4,100. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood | Manchester, CT | $4,000 |
| Yale University | New Cannan, CT | $100 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 63% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The David and Sharon Bender Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 167 Kingfisher Lane, Westbrook, CT, 06498. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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