Washington · Private foundation
Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 136
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $525,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 114
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $3.1M | 75% |
| FY2022 | 72 | $3.1M | 71% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $4.0M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multicare Foundations | $2,227,100 | 4 | 11% |
| The Rescue Mission | $634,813 | 4 | 4% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties | $625,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Youth Marine Foundation | $616,600 | 4 | 49% |
| Tacomapierce County Habitat for Humanit | $524,082 | 2 | 3% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $437,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Pacific Lutheran University | $435,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County | $382,550 | 4 | 1% |
| United Way of Northern California | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation | $190,000 | 2 | 13% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 159 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Bamford Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Woodworth Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Forest Foundation · The Russell Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Sequoia Foundation · Names Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc
- How much does Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc give?
- Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc reported 136 grants totaling $3,411,165 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 114 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (12%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Multicare Foundations ($2.2M), The Rescue Mission ($635k), Young Men's Christian Association of Pierce and Kitsap Counties ($626k).
- Does Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, The Bamford Foundation.
- Where is Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc based?
- Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc is based in WA.
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