Minnesota · Private foundation
Benton Telecommunications Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Benton Telecommunications Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 25 | $178k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $127k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $211k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $240k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $255k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $156k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $252k | 51% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $207k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment Enterprises Inc | $163,210 | 8 | 1% |
| Terebinth Refuge | $109,295 | 5 | 3% |
| Anna Marie's Alliance | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Wacosa | $57,589 | 6 | 0% |
| Tanner's Team Foundation | $52,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Buckman Ball Park Inc | $47,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement North | $38,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Overcomers International Fellowship | $28,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($909k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benton Telecommunications 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: Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · Morgan Family Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Initiative Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · Minnesota Power Foundation · The K Foundation · Central Minnesota Council on Aging Inc
How this is measured
Compare Benton Telecommunications Foundation with peer funders
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About Benton Telecommunications Foundation
- How much does Benton Telecommunications Foundation give?
- Benton Telecommunications Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $177,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Benton Telecommunications Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Human Services (16%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Benton Telecommunications Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Employment Enterprises Inc ($163k), Terebinth Refuge ($109k), Anna Marie's Alliance ($75k).
- Does Benton Telecommunications Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benton Telecommunications Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benton Telecommunications Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Otto Bremer Trust, Morgan Family Foundation.
- Where is Benton Telecommunications Foundation based?
- Benton Telecommunications Foundation is based in MN.
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