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Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn at a glance

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Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$158k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$817kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
$4,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,300
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$18,000
BLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,275
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$10,800
GANNON UNIVERSITY$7,500
PENNSYLVANIA WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF$6,800
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$5,100
THEIL COLLEGE$5,100
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC$5,000
UW MADISON$5,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$4,800
EMORY UNIVERSITY$4,800
SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY$4,600
SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY$4,000
ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY$4,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENN STATE NEW KENSINGTON: $3k → 10%CEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $4k → 11%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9k → 12%BLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $16k → 14%THE COLLEGE OF ST ROSE: $2k → 14%FLORIDA STATE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 10%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2k → 12%BLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15k → 14%BLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15k → 14%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

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
UT
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.
$732k · 36 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
17

Total granted

$732k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+8%

Still filing today

47%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%
  • PP
    POINT PARK UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +7%
  • DU
    DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $34k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
6
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
7
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Aloysius College; the most unlike its peers is Seton Hill University. 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

27 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. 27 of the 61 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $108,400 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIABLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $83,045 · OtherBLAIRSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARYPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $38,600 · OtherPOINT PARK UNIVERSITYSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $34,500 · OtherSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-JOHNSTOWN: $18,900 · Other+33 more: $188,500 · Other+33 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $79,600 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $34,400 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITYDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $34,100 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRITSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $32,800 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITYCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $20,900 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITYCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $19,100 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITYGANNON UNIVERSITY: $16,700 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $14,700 · EducationTHIEL COLLEGE: $14,700 · EducationBelmont University: $14,000 · Education+13 more: $65,600 · Education+13 more
Other$471,945Education$346,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $79,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $38,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $34,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $34,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $32,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $20,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $19,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $16,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $14,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE: $14,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $11,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $10,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $10,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CREST COLLEGE: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE: $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $2,200 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THIEL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR CREST COLLEGE ↗

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.

Scott Foundation IncNational Collegiate A…Mutual of America Fou…The Pittsburgh Founda…American Endowment Fo…Verizon FoundationDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Scott Foundation IncPA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benz William L & Margaret L Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 61 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home