Missouri · Private foundation
Black Benjamin a Char
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $415k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Black Benjamin a Char funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 3 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $33k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $27k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Blocks for Community Enrichment | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Central Community College Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Heartland United Way Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Grace Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Santas Workshop | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oasis Counseling International | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand Island Young Women's Christian Association | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Grand Island Ne | $1,350 | 1 | 0% |
| Hall County Leadership Unlimited Inc | $1,225 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Black Benjamin a Char 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: Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati · Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw · Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust · Greater Grand Island Community Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Black Benjamin a Char
- How much does Black Benjamin a Char give?
- Black Benjamin a Char reported 3 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Black Benjamin a Char fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (53%), Education (25%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Black Benjamin a Char's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Building Blocks for Community Enrichment ($52k), Central Community College Foundation Inc ($30k), Heartland United Way Inc ($15k).
- Does Black Benjamin a Char fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Black Benjamin a Char accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Black Benjamin a Char?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sn Bud and Gloria Wolbach Charitable Foundati, Claussen E & M Charitable Tuw, Taylor Vern & Esther Char Trust.
- Where is Black Benjamin a Char based?
- Black Benjamin a Char is based in MO.
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