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Benedict Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS SERVICES$5,000
TRU COMMUNITY CARE$5,000
MANOMET INC$5,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$5,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS$5,000
EARTHJUSTICE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY$2,000
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
WHATCOM LAND TRUST$2,000
LIGHTHAWK$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
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

ME
WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Benedict Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Benedict Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)
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 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Friday Initiative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVIS: $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - UC DAVISUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INCPLANNED 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 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICELIGHTHAWK: $2,000 · EnvironmentLIGHTHAWKWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER: $2,000 · EnvironmentWILD BEAR NATURE…WHATCOM 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 …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

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 Benedict Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benedict Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
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 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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