· Private foundation
Benton Telecommunications Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISES INC | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - RELAY FOR LIFE | $25,000 |
| EASTERN MORRISON COUNTY 4 WHEELER CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION - GREAT STRIDES | $20,000 |
| MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE INC | $20,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CITY OF RICE | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| RICE WOMEN OF TODAY | $2,000 |
| CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF PEASE | $2,000 |
| RICE AREA FOOD SHELF | $2,000 |
| CAN DO CANINES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THE BRIDGE AG CHURCH | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EEEMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +82%
- TRTEREBINTH REFUGE5× · 2018–2023 · $109k · revenue +30%
- AMANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE4× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MTMN TELECOM ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MSMINNESOTA STATE VETERANS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
To provide high quality care for children and seniors while promoting respect and understanding through intentional intergenerational interaction.
The organization's mission is to support people with disabilities to realize their full potential.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
Milc is a non-residential, independent living center for persons with disabilities. milc provides a variety of services for the purposes of assisting people with disabilities to live more independently in the community. milc staff provides…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 142 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 EMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds TEREBINTH REFUGE ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WACOSA ↗
- Who funds TANNER'S TEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds OVERCOMERS INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds Eastern Morrison County 4 Wheeler Club Inc ↗
- Who funds INDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF PEASE MN ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds RUM RIVER LIFE CHOICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds HONORING CHOICES ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIFESTYLES INC A CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benton Telecommunications Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benton Telecommunications Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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