· Private foundation
Black Benjamin a Char
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING BLOCKS FOR COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| GRACE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BBBuilding Blocks for Community Enrichment6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +44%
- CCCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +103%
- HUHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue -16%
Funded once
- SWSANTAS WORKSHOPone grant, 2023 · $8k
- GIGRAND ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- OCOasis Counseling Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Empowering people to turn their passion into purpose by creating legacies that strengthen the future of the communities we serve.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To provide membership and benefits to the local business community and to promote community development and education.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Quality care for everyone
To administer intercollegiate athletic programs for colleges and universities
The ICC supports and nurtures our island community by fostering health, wellness, enrichment, and social interaction for all ages.
To provide a variety of mental health and substance abuse services to adults, children, and families in lea county.
To communicate the relevance of the life-changing message of jesus christ to youth by example and word and challenging them to trust christ and to live for him.
To see safe, healthy and thriving communities and families
Assist city library
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Island Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Oasis Counseling International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Building Blocks for Community Enrichment ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oasis Counseling International ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLAND YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GRAND ISLAND NE ↗
- Who funds HALL COUNTY LEADERSHIP UNLIMITED INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Black Benjamin a Char funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.