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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.

$875k
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$405k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.3MEducation$995kHealth$935kPhilanthropy$895kHuman Services$160kInternational$107kArts & Culture$101kCrime & Legal$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

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
$685
Median grant
23
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 10%VISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $5k → 8%A GIFT OF SMILES: $3k → 8%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH: $250 → 11%CORNERSTONE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $100 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%REECE'S RAINBOW: $250 → 7%HURON AREA SENIOR CENTER: $100 → 13%A GIFT OF SMILES: $2k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%THE INTERNATIONAL 22Q112 FOUNDATION: $750 → 8%WEIGHTED ANGELS INC: $55 → 7%WEIGHTED ANGELS INC: $30 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $86 → 13%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $30k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $15k → 17%VICTIMS RESOURCE CENTER: $200 → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $258 → 13%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF SCRANTON: $200 → 13%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $100 → 15%HOSPICE OF THE SACRED HEART: $25 → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%CASA OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $5k → 15%NORTHEAST SIGHT SERVICES: $250 → 15%CANDY'S PLACE: $157 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

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%.

Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 96 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
162

Total granted

$4.3M
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

66%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $549k · revenue +150%
  • WU
    WILKES UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $516k · revenue +15%
  • MA
    MORAVIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $116k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • JO
    JCC OF WILKES-BARRE
    one grant, 2023 · $43k
  • TD
    THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +5%
  • BF
    BENEVIS FOUNDATION
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Asco Association

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…

Community Improvement
4
New York University

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.

Education
5
Highmark Health

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.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology

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…

Health
9
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

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.

Health
10
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Back Mountain Railroad Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/182
Grantees still filing
102/182
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DTA FOUNDATION: $1,104,415 · OtherDTA FOUNDATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $274,350 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCEMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $214,031 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WILKES BARRE: $147,500 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WILKES BARREMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $116,200 · OtherWYOMING SEMINARY ANNUAL FUND: $100,000 · Other+106 more: $562,516 · Other+106 moreWILKES UNIVERSITY: $515,968 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $110,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEM…THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $103,004 · EducationTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUN…Dental Trade Alliance Foundation: $37,500 · EducationTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC: $35,000 · Education+17 more: $129,551 · Education+17 moreUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $549,437 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…+5 more: $21,708 · PhilanthropyDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $294,029 · HealthDENTAL LIFE…GEISINGER HEALTH: $60,100 · HealthGEISINGER H…MATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $34,705 · HealthMATERNAL & …THE CHILDRENS ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $30,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…+33 more: $57,780 · Health+33 moreNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $81,225 · Arts & CultureEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $3,526 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $2,990 · Arts & CultureMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,669 · Human ServicesCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $10,000 · Human ServicesVISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesA GIFT OF SMILES: $4,000 · Human Services+7 more: $2,916 · Human ServicesPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNAW Institute for Distribution Excellence: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSCRANTON TOMORROW: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$2,519,012Education$931,023Philanthropy$571,145Health$476,614Arts & Culture$87,741Human Services$80,585Community Improvement$52,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY: $549,437 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $515,968 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK: $294,029 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $116,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $103,004 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $81,225 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGEISINGER HEALTH: $60,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDental Trade Alliance Foundation: $37,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMATERNAL & FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $34,705 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS ORAL HEALTH INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUZERNE COUNTY HEAD START INC: $24,681 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,669 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $12,126 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF WYOMING VALLEY: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LUZERNE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMENTORSHIPS IN DENTISTRY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGIVE TO COLOMBIA INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEADERSHIP NORTHEAST: $5,168 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZUFALL HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA GIFT OF SMILES: $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART: $3,526 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEPA RACING INC: $3,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FOUNDATION INC: $3,322 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF LUZERNE COUNTY: $3,024 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETSQUASH INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $2,710 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Tambur Family FoundationPA56.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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