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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $115,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES | $100,000 |
| METRO DENVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS FBO COLLEGE MATCH | $30,000 |
| EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| CO OUTDOOR ED CENTER | $25,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANTIY | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WRWestern Resource Advocates9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +87%
- IDINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES9× · 2017–2025 · $465k · revenue +79%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - PUERTO RICO RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SIStriveTogether Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +196%
- TCThe Colorado Trail Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Repertory Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REPERTORY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds BLUE SPRUCE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds DENVER INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds StriveTogether Inc ↗
- Who funds Clatsop Community Action ↗
- Who funds The Colorado Trail Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Western Union Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Benson Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Clatsop Community Action — 26% of income from government
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.
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