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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
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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
10
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$10,000
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$10,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS$5,000
MANOMET INC$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICES$5,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$5,000
TRU COMMUNITY CARE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
EARTHJUSTICE$3,000
LIGHTHAWK$2,000
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL - LOS ANGELES REG$2,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$2,000
WHATCOM LAND TRUST$2,000
02The need
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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.

show:

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

area typical 8%TRU COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 12%INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Benedict Family 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.

Benedict Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

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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
2
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
3
Conservation Colorado

Our work secures policies and elevates leaders that advance climate action and environmental justice. we help them do it, and hold them to it. we work for a colorado where every community can breathe clean air, drink clean water, protect…

Civil Rights
4
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
5
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
6
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
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

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

Arts & Culture
8
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest

The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…

Environment
9
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
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
12
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Friday Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains Service Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Land Conservation Organizat…Food Pantries & AssistanceWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Youth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsPublic Library SupportSenior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%52%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS — $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVISBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLEPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICE CORPORATION — $5,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICE CORPORATIONIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · Other+15 more — $13,200 · Other+15 moreMANOMET INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentMANOMET INCEARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER — $2,000 · EnvironmentWILD BEAR NATURE…LIGHTHAWK — $2,000 · EnvironmentLIGHTHAWKWHATCOM LAND TRUST — $2,000 · EnvironmentWHATCOM LAND TRU…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $1,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSER…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DE…+2 more — $1,000 · Environment+2 morePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROAD…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTA…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION — $500 · Arts & CultureTRU COMMUNITY CARE — $5,000 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $1,000 · Human ServicesRAINFOREST TRUST — $5,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300 · PhilanthropyPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$71,200Environment$17,000Arts & Culture$13,000Human 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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetMANOMET INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRU COMMUNITY CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHAWK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHATCOM LAND TRUST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCatherine Washburn Medical Association — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FRIDAY INITIATIVE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGMONT MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Colorado Gives Founda…Lynn & Helen N Clark …The Longmont Communit…The Denver FoundationCollins FoundationXcel Energy FoundationAnschutz Family Found…The Colorado Health F…The Pfizer Foundation…Mile High United Way …The KCS Pacific Found…
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

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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