Bently Foundation

A private family foundation that carries one founder's three passions, the environment, the arts, and animal welfare, into grantmaking that reaches from the Bay Area to the wider world.

Financial profile

Bently Foundation · EIN 38-3886828 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$1,132,959$807,911$35,817,528Dec 2023
FY2022$353,288$1,261,468$31,070,204Dec 2022
FY2021$1,953,258$4,412,876$40,121,361Dec 2021
FY2020$751,587$2,977,911$42,458,877Dec 2020
FY2019$1,852,514$2,585,210$41,715,006Dec 2019
FY2015$1,551,195$2,238,242$39,569,876Dec 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Bently Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs BF

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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The outside view

A private family foundation that carries one founder's three passions, the environment, the arts, and animal welfare, into grantmaking that reaches from the Bay Area to the wider world.

  • Authority
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Operational

Their shape

The Movement

Gathered around a cause, and built to move.

The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.

Also reads toward The Legacy and The Frontier.

Strengths

→Real influence on the wider field.
→Members are motivated by a clear why.
→Quick to rally around what matters now.

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