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Benge Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$15kEnvironment$11kHealth$6kReligion$6kFood & Nutrition$4kCrime & Legal$4kAnimals$3kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$109k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND FRIENDS OF THE DHAMMA$3,100
SANGHATA FOUNDATION$2,600
OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION$1,000
NEIGHBOR IMPACT$1,000
DESCHUTES LAND TRUST$1,000
SAVING GRACE$500
FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION$500
CENTRAL OREGON TRAIL ASSOCIATION$500
FAMILY KITCHEN$500
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON$500
LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$500
KIDS CENTER$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
Individual grant recipient$350
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%SAVING GRACE: $500 → 10%SAVING GRACE: $500 → 10%SAVING GRACE: $500 → 10%SAVING GRACE: $500 → 10%SAVING GRACE: $500 → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT: $1k → 10%Neighborhood Impact: $1k → 10%NEIGHBOR IMPACT: $1k → 10%NEIGHBOR IMPACT: $1k → 10%NEIGHBOR IMPACT: $1k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42k · 17 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$42k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

65%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalAnimalsFood & NutritionReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ON
    OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
  • N
    NEIGHBORIMPACT
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +115%
  • DL
    Deschutes Land Trust
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NI
    NEIGHBOR IMPACT FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • DC
    Deschutes County Search and Rescue Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +28%
  • SG
    Saving Grace
    one grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Earth Day Oregon
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2
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
3
Oregon Desert Land Trust

To conserve and restore wild and working lands in oregons high desert for wildlife and people, and provide common ground to improve climate resilience, wildlife connectivity, habitat restoration, innovative grazing practices, cultural…

Environment
4
Oregon Horse Rescue
Youth Development
5
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
6
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
7
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
8
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
9
Little Critter Crew

To help homeless small animals in the state of Oregon by providing adequate shelter and veterinary care.

Animals
10
Oregon Justice Resource Center

Providing legal advocacy to underserved communities

Civil Rights
11
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
12
Oregon Crime Victims Law Center

Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Sanghata Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
15/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $5,900 · OtherOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATIONPORTLAND FRIENDS OF THE DHAMMA: $3,100 · OtherPORTLAND FRIENDS OF THE DHAMMAVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $3,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINECentral Oregon Trail Assoc: $2,500 · OtherCentral Oregon Trail AssocPlanned Parenthood: $2,500 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE LA: $1,250 · OtherNEIGHBOR IMPACT FOOD BANK: $1,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $1,000 · Other+11 more: $5,100 · Other+11 moreNEIGHBORIMPACT: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORIMPACTLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY ASSO…SAVING GRACE: $2,500 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACETHE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $500 · Human ServicesDeschutes Land Trust: $4,750 · EnvironmentDeschutes …Deschutes County Search and Rescue Foundation: $500 · EnvironmentDeschutes …KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $3,000 · Crime & LegalCHANGING PATTERNS INC: $750 · Crime & LegalFAMILY KITCHEN: $3,250 · Food & NutritionOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $1,500 · AnimalsSANGHATA FOUNDATION: $2,600 · ReligionBend Endurance Academy: $600 · Recreation & Sports
Other$25,350Human Services$10,500Environment$5,250Crime & Legal$3,750Food & Nutrition$3,250Animals$3,000Religion$2,600Recreation & Sports$600

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 budgetOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $5,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORIMPACT: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY KITCHEN: $3,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGING PATTERNS INC: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBend Endurance Academy: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes County Search and Rescue Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500 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.

  • Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORIMPACT ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SANGHATA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING PATTERNS INC ↗
  • Who funds Bend Endurance Academy ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes County Search and Rescue Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

The Roundhouse Founda…First Interstate Banc…The Oregon Community …Maybelle Clark Macdon…Sorlie Family Foundat…Bend FoundationUnited Way of Deschut…Barbara Emily Knudson…The Anjulicia Foundat…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen Foundation
The Roundhouse FoundationOR19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
  • Saving Grace: 48% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Latino Community Association: 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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