· Private foundation
Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $276k
- $250k+1 grant · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $404,783 |
| UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY | $81,431 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WILKES BARRE | $75,000 |
| GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK | $60,000 |
| NAW INSTITUTE FOR DISTRIBUTION EXCELLENCE | $25,000 |
| CEOWEINBERG FOOD BANK | $21,181 |
| WVIA | $20,125 |
| DTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC | $7,875 |
| MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST COLUMBIAN | $7,875 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| AMERICA 250PA | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,875 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 41%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
96 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY8× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +150%
- WUWILKES UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $516k · revenue +15%
- MAMORAVIAN ACADEMY2× · 2022–2024 · $116k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- JOJCC OF WILKES-BARREone grant, 2023 · $43k
- TDTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +5%
- BFBENEVIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
The mission of the wistar institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important…
The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.
To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 299 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Dental Trade Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC ↗
- Who funds MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds NAW Institute for Distribution Excellence ↗
- Who funds LUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · The Luzerne Foundation · Allone Charities · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · Allone Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Sordoni Family Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · Joseph B and Virginia H Banks Foundation · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · Maslow Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Visiting Dental Hygiene Inc: 74% of income from government
- Caring Health Center Inc: 39% of income from government
- Zufall Health Center Inc: 32% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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