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Benton-Yang 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.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$415kHealth$293kAnimals$174kEnvironment$127kPublic Benefit$107kYouth Development$71kEducation$56kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$18,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National LGBTQ Task Force$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$35,000
CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NW$30,000
ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FDN$25,000
BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY$20,000
GLOBAL GIVING$20,000
ACLU-WA FOUNDATION$18,000
BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND$10,000
NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$10,000
Lawyers Defending American Democrac$10,000
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art$3,210
NORTHWEST HARVEST$3,000
BRADY CAMPAIGN$3,000
HOPELINK$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPELINK: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
CA
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$1.2M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+100%

Still filing today

69%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $174k · revenue +77%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +84%
  • BC
    BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SF
    San Francisco Education Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $36k · revenue +100%
  • TR
    The Roots Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -53%
  • NR
    Natural Resources Defense Council
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
2
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
3
Alliance for Education

Our mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools.

Education
4
Seeding Justice

Seeding justice builds collective power by transforming philanthropy and funding movements, in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities. our programs are based on trust, relationships, and partnership. they are founded on…

Philanthropy
5
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
8
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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9
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
10
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
11
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Lgbtq Task Force; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $184,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODAmerican Civil Liberties Union: $136,500 · OtherAmerican Civil Liberties UnionBrady Campaign: $107,000 · OtherBrady CampaignNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $65,000 · OtherNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCETHE ROOT FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherTHE ROOT FOUNDATIONCHILDHAVEN: $32,000 · Other+10 more: $134,210 · Other+10 moreCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $174,000 · AnimalsCHIMPANZEE SAN…ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: $144,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR…BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $112,000 · EnvironmentBUSHLIFE …American Heart Association Inc: $109,000 · HealthAmerican …San Francisco Education Fund: $36,000 · EducationLAWYERS DEFENDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$718,710Animals$174,000Community Improvement$144,000Environment$112,000Health$109,000Education$36,000Civil Rights$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $174,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY FOUNDATION: $144,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY: $112,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $109,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $36,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS DEFENDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $13,210 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPELINK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benton-Yang Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benton-Yang Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Basic Rights Education Fund: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Benton-Yang Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Benton-Yang Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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