Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $158k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 27 | $158k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $154k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $154k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $194k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $158k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pittsburgh | $79,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Point Park University | $38,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Saint Francis University | $34,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | $34,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Seton Hill University | $32,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Carlow University | $20,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Chatham University | $19,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Gannon University | $16,700 | 3 | 0% |
| American University | $14,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Thiel College | $14,700 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn 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: Scott Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Mutual of America Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn
- How much does Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn give?
- Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn reported 27 grants totaling $157,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Pittsburgh ($80k), Point Park University ($39k), Saint Francis University ($34k).
- Does Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scott Foundation Inc, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Mutual of America Foundation.
- Where is Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn based?
- Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn is based in PA.
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