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Benjamin a Armstrong Tr Ua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$135kHealth$91k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$820k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
L&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALE$8,000
FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$4,000
ECKARD COLLEGE$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%MUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $2k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%RENNSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNI: $5k → 11%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $4k → 16%ECKARD COLLEGE: $2k → 12%FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINT: $7k → 9%WESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8k → 11%EASTERN CT STATE UNIV: $4k → 12%NORTH CAROLINE STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE: $3k → 14%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 4%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 8%UVM: $2k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%RENNSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNI: $4k → 11%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2k → 16%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINT: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $4k → 11%EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT AVERY POINT: $3k → 9%UCONN: $3k → 11%EASTERN CT STATE UNIV: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINT: $2k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $15k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $12k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $12k → 9%L&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALE: $8k → 9%LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $4k → 9%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
NC
SC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$143k · 7 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$143k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+18%

Still filing today

29%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LM
    LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +32%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $17k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    2× · 2019–2025 · $12k

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +18%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +12%

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

04Your 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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
7
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
12
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University and the most unlike its peers is Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINT — $16,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - AVERY POINTNORTH CAROLINE STATE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINE STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $11,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTIndividual grant recipient — $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $8,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYL&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALE — $8,000 · OtherL&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALEFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · OtherFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $5,700 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYEASTERN CT STATE UNIV — $5,250 · Other+8 more — $16,200 · Other+8 moreLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $83,200 · HealthLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCThe George Washington University — $11,400 · EducationThe George Washingto…WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $9,500 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYNew York University — $5,000 · EducationNew York UniversityLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $4,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF…BENEDICT COLLEGE — $3,750 · EducationBENEDICT COLLEGEVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,250 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYEckerd College — $2,000 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $1,800 · Education
Other$100,850Health$83,200Education$41,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $83,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $11,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE — $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE — $1,800 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.

  • Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds New York University
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Eckerd College
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Benjamin a Armstrong Tr Ua 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College0% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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