· Private foundation
Benzien Family Foundation Inc
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.
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 $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $39,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY | $7,500 |
| LASALLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $7,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $7,000 |
| ART SPAN SF CHILDREN'S ART PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEAST SNOWBOARD TEAM | $5,000 |
| SELLWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILO FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC | $3,000 |
| SUNRISE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +18% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +109%- TMTHE MILO FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +97%
- COCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TSTHE SELLWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $11k
- LFLASALLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $7k
- AHA HOME AWAYone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
How this is measured
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 38 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TUCSON PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MILO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds ArtSpan ↗
- Who funds Cleveland High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS RAISED ↗
- Who funds WHOLE CHILD MONTESSORI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SNOW DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE DUNIWAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Benzien Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benzien Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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