Iowa · Private foundation
Benson 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $101k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Benson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 16 | $5k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $5k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $5k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $6k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank of Iowa | $3,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Ministries | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Puppy Jake Foundation | $1,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Mind and Spirit Counseling Center | $1,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary | $1,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Street Collective | $725 | 5 | 0% |
| The Rolling Dog Farm | $700 | 5 | 0% |
| Seed Savers Exchange Inc | $625 | 6 | 0% |
| Des Moines Public Library Foundation | $500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lutheran Home for the Aged Association - West | $500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 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 Benson 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: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Benson Family Foundation
- How much does Benson Family Foundation give?
- Benson Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $4,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Benson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (25%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Health (13%).
- Who are Benson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of Iowa ($3k), Hope Ministries ($2k), Puppy Jake Foundation ($1k).
- Does Benson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benson 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 Benson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Meredith Corporation Foundation, The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation.
- Where is Benson Family Foundation based?
- Benson Family Foundation is based in IA.
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