· Private foundation
Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREE PRESS | $5,000 |
| SHLB | $2,500 |
| UCC OFFICE OF COMMUNICATION | $1,500 |
| PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE | $500 |
| TRPC INC | $500 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Benton Institute for Broadband & Society’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +35%- SHSCHOOLS HEALTH AND LIBRARIES BROADBAND COALITION5× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +64%
- FPFREE PRESS6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- NDNATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -48%
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTOCINCone grant, 2019 · $1k
- TCTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +39%
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.
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.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
Chamber of progress is a center-left tech industry coalition devoted to a progressive society, economy, workforce, and consumer climate. we back public policies that will build a fairer, more inclusive country in which all people benefit…
The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.
Making the web work for everyone. W3C brings together global stakeholders to develop open standards that enable a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity.
Provide the public access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of both houses of the us congress, and other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided - all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced…
To promote the development, interpretation and practice of communications law and policy.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS HEALTH AND LIBRARIES BROADBAND COALITION ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds Telecommunications Policy Research Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benton Institute for Broadband & Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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