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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BENCO FAMILY FOUNDATION FKA COHEN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $10,000 |
| DTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL LIFE FOUNDATION INC | $7,875 |
| MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST COLUMBIAN | $7,875 |
| AMERICA 250PA | $7,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,875 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Benco Family Foundation Fka Cohen Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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