How much did Benedict Family Foundation grant in FY2017?

Benedict Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is Benedict Family Foundation based?

Benedict Family Foundation is based in DE.

Benedict Family Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

Benedict Family Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$117k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$25k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k37 grants · $62k
$10k–50k4 grants · $55k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS$25,000
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$10,000
MANOMET INC$5,000
TRU COMMUNITY CARE$5,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICES$5,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS$5,000
EARTHJUSTICE$3,000
BOULDER COUNTY GOVERNMENT - BOULDER COUNTY EXTENSI$3,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC$2,000
WILD BEAR CENTER FOR NATURE DISCOVERY$2,000
CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY$2,000
WHATCOM LAND TRUST$2,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Urban Land Conservancy

Ulc manages affordable real estate to positively impact lives and communities in colorado.

Community Improvement

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Aspen Valley Land Trust

Protecting the open land and special places of the roaring fork and middle colorado river valleys for wildlife, agriculture, and community forever.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

To protect endangered species & preserve their natural habitats.

Animals

Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations

Environment

Rewild

Re:wild protects and restores the wild to build a thriving earth where all life flourishes.

Animals

Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment

Conservation Colorado

Conservation colorado works at the intersection of people, policy and politics to advance environmental solutions by mobilizing communities, influencing decision-makers and electing pro-conservation champions.

Civil Rights

Colorado Wildlife Federation Inc

Educate and advocate for wildlife management regulations and policy decisions, educate students and families about colorado's ecosystems and wildlife species in programs.

Animals

Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

The Wild Rockies Field Institute offers academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.

Education

Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Friday Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,534

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.

03the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

26/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$73,700Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$12,500Human Services$6,000International$5,500Philanthropy$2,300Public Benefit$2,000

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Collins Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · Otter Cares Foundation · Community Shares of Colorado Inc · Rose Community Foundation

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 organisation Benedict Family 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.

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CATHERINE WASHBURN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237216316 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CATHERINE WASHBURN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Benedict Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Benedict Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Benedict Family Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benedict Family Foundation?

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Benedict Family Foundation

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benedict Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph