Texas · Private foundation
Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $77k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $95k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $86k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $88k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $73k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $66k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $71k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding Together Litchfield County Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 29% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $86,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Operation Fuel Incorporated | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Susan B Anthony Project Inc | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Hometown Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New Opportunities Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chore Service Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Arc of Litchfield County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding Together Litchfield County Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 29% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $86,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Operation Fuel Incorporated | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $70,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Susan B Anthony Project Inc | $23,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Hometown Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New Opportunities Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chore Service Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Arc of Litchfield County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Rescue US Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| End Hunger Connecticut Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mental Health Connecticut Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covenant to Care for Children Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Special Olympics Connecticut Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 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.
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How this is measured
About Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund
- How much does Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund give?
- Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund reported 12 grants totaling $81,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rebuilding Together Litchfield County Inc ($95k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($86k), Operation Fuel Incorporated ($81k).
- Does Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Connecticut Community Foundation, American Savings Foundation Inc, Aetna Foundation Inc.
- Where is Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund based?
- Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund is based in TX.
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