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Benjamin a Armstrong Tr Ua at a glance

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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 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, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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:

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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
NC
SC
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

+41%
+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
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

  • LM
    LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +41%
  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University; 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 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. 11 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 recipientL&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALE: $8,000 · OtherL&M MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PART OF YALEPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYFLORIDA 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 UNIVERSITYFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationEckerd College: $2,000 · EducationMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $1,800 · Education
Other$100,850Health$83,200Education$41,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUHLENBERG COLLEGE: $1,800 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 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 FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Eckerd College ↗
  • Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benjamin a Armstrong Tr Ua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benjamin a Armstrong Tr Ua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% 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, 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 27 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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