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Benedict Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2017
41
Grants FY2017
38
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$25,000
States reached, FY2017
10
Total assets, FY2017
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc$10,00010%
Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc$10,00010%
Rainforest Trust$5,00010%
Manomet Inc$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Service Corporation$5,0001n/a
Tru Community Care$5,00010%
Earthjustice$3,00010%
Lighthawk$2,00010%
Wild Bear Nature Center$2,00011%
Paws for Purple Hearts$2,00010%
Show all 33 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benedict Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetManomet Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTru Community Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthawk: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWild Bear Nature Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPaws for Purple Hearts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhatcom Land Trust: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach United Resource Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatherine Washburn Medical Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntercambio de Comunidades: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLongmont Humane Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLongmont Meals on Wheels Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Shelter of St Vrain Valley: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Lighthouse Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScience Friday Initiative Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt · The Longmont Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Collins Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mile High United Way Inc · The KCS Pacific 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.

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How do I get to Benedict Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Benedict Family 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.

About Benedict Family Foundation

How much does Benedict Family Foundation give?
Benedict Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Benedict Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Environment (50%), Health (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Benedict Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc ($10k), Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc ($10k), Rainforest Trust ($5k).
Does Benedict Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Benedict Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, Lynn & Helen N Clark Crt.
Where is Benedict Family Foundation based?
Benedict Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 40 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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