Oregon · Private foundation
Benge Family 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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $109k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Benge Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $14k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $8k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $8k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $8k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $9k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Natural Desert Association | $5,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighborimpact | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Deschutes Land Trust | $4,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Kitchen | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Portland Friends of the Dhamma | $3,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sanghata Foundation | $2,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Community Association | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Saving Grace | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Humane Society | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Natural Desert Association | $5,900 | 6 | 0% |
| Neighborimpact | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Deschutes Land Trust | $4,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Family Kitchen | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Portland Friends of the Dhamma | $3,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sanghata Foundation | $2,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Latino Community Association | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Saving Grace | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Humane Society | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Central Oregon | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Changing Patterns Inc | $750 | 3 | 0% |
| Bend Endurance Academy | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| The Friendship Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Deschutes County Search and Rescue Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benge Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Sorlie Family Foundation · Bend Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation
How this is measured
About Benge Family Foundation
- How much does Benge Family Foundation give?
- Benge Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $14,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Benge Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Environment (21%), Health (11%).
- Who are Benge Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oregon Natural Desert Association ($6k), Neighborimpact ($5k), Deschutes Land Trust ($5k).
- Does Benge Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benge 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 Benge Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roundhouse Foundation, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, The Oregon Community Foundation.
- Where is Benge Family Foundation based?
- Benge Family Foundation is based in OR.
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