Tennessee · Private foundation
Benwood Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 117
- Grants FY2024
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 50 to 74
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $104M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Benwood Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $561k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 76 | $7.7M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $5.0M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $4.6M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.4M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $6.1M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 65 | $5.4M | 31% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $3.4M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 68 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Chamber Foundation | $3,272,500 | 8 | 14% |
| Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise | $2,840,000 | 6 | 23% |
| The Rivercity Company | $2,662,594 | 8 | 26% |
| Chattanooga Design Studio | $2,235,000 | 7 | 39% |
| Chattanoogahamilton County Public Education Fund | $2,058,500 | 8 | 11% |
| City of Chattanooga | $2,000,920 | 5 | n/a |
| Unified | $1,671,500 | 6 | 94% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $1,554,175 | 6 | 1% |
| Colab | $1,310,000 | 8 | 26% |
| The Young Women's Leadership Academy Foundation Inc | $837,000 | 5 | 31% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Benwood Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 124 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Footprint Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Tucker Foundation · United Way of Greater Chattanooga · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation
How this is measured
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About Benwood Foundation Inc
- How much does Benwood Foundation Inc give?
- Benwood Foundation Inc reported 117 grants totaling $7,885,320 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 74 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Benwood Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (25%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Benwood Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Chattanooga Chamber Foundation ($3.3M), Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise ($2.8M), The Rivercity Company ($2.7M).
- Does Benwood Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benwood Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benwood Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Lyndhurst Foundation Inc.
- Where is Benwood Foundation Inc based?
- Benwood Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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