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Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
198
Grants FY2024
139
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$348,000
Organizations funded a year
102 to 139
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$448M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving152$14M38%
FY2023139$15M40%
FY2022123$16M42%
FY2021102$14M53%
FY2020107$15Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$18MArts & Culture$10MCommunity Improvement$9.9MHealth$9.4MHuman Services$4.5MHousing & Shelter$3.2MPhilanthropy$3.1MFood & Nutrition$3.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 275 grantees
All grantees of Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$6,134,88651%
Coalfield Development Corporation$2,338,97657%
Marshall University Research Corporation$1,943,70052%
Generation West Virginia Inc$1,763,000538%
Allegheny Intermediate Unit$1,719,8755n/a
West Virginia Community Development Hub Inc$1,250,000445%
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust$1,205,00051%
Partner Community Capital Inc$1,133,75045%
Carnegie Mellon University$990,00040%
The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc$955,500425%
Allegheny Conference on Community Development$875,00052%
West Virginians for Affordable Health Care$845,000543%
Fayette County Cultural Trust$700,000558%
Camc Health Education and Research Institute Inc$685,00015%
Grow Ohio Valley Inc$669,902317%
Team for West Virginia Children$650,39555%
Future Generations University Corporation$645,15049%
West Virginia Nonprofit Association Inc$622,000559%
Catalyst Connection$620,00043%
Everychild Now$561,000458%
West Virginia Oral Health Coalition Inc$553,000592%
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc$550,00052%
Pittsburgh Symphony Inc$545,00050%
Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation$525,00046%
West Virginia Rural Health Association Inc$525,000530%
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania$522,200513%
Marshall University Foundation Incorporated$511,40041%
Film Pittsburgh$510,000533%
Edventure Group Inc$505,300315%
University of Pittsburgh$500,00040%
Pittsburgh Opera Inc$500,00052%
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation$465,00052%
Mountaineer Food Bank Inc$450,00040%
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh$450,00032%
Project Healthy Kids Inc$445,0003100%
Bricolage$425,000277%
Philanthropy West Virginia Inc$425,000520%
Attack Theatre Inc$407,700327%
West Virginia Alliance for Creative Health Solutions Inc$405,0003n/a
The Progress Fund$400,00024%
Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc$400,00026%
The West Virginia Chamber Foundation$395,000467%
Lewis County Family Resource$375,000413%
Oglebay Institute$369,00036%
The Reach Initiative Inc$352,500350%
Chatham University$350,00030%
West Virginia Local Health Inc$345,000254%
Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Foundation Inc$335,000410%
West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc$325,000220%
Wv Perinatal Partnership Inc$310,00033%
West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation$303,275217%
Bridgeway Capital Inc$300,00031%
Sustainable Pittsburgh$300,00039%
Williamson Health and Wellness Center Inc$300,00031%
The Center for Rural Health Development Inc$296,05056%
Allegheny County Airport Authority Charitable Foundation$286,000267%
Greenbrier County Health Alliance$285,000462%
West Virginia Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics Inc$280,000353%
Enterprise Zone Corp of Braddock$275,000286%
Renewable Manufactuing Gateway$275,000239%
The Riffraff Arts Collective Inc$275,000322%
Oglebay Foundation Inc$270,00032%
Aces Coalition of Wv Inc$255,000277%
The University of Charleston Inc$255,00020%
Save The Children Federation Inc$255,00030%
Tug River Health Association Inc$255,00021%
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council Inc$250,75034%
STEM Coding Lab Inc$245,000412%
Tamarack Foundation Inc$240,000239%
Wvma Educational Fund Inc$237,000295%
Delivering Good Inc$230,00050%
West Virginia Health Right Inc$230,00021%
WV Foster Adoptive & Kinship Parents Network Inc$228,500247%
Knowledgeworks Foundation$225,00032%
Woodlands Development Group Inc$225,00027%
Pittsburgh Green Innovators Inc$220,000143%
McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc$220,00024%
National Road Heritage Corridor$215,000329%
United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley Inc$209,000215%
Invest Appalachia Inc$207,500312%
West Virginia Primary Care Association Inc$205,00029%
Active Southern West Virginia Inc$203,250315%
Marshall County Family Resource Network Inc$203,000222%
Pennsylvania State University Philanthropic Fund$202,5003n/a
Public Health Institute$200,00020%
Quality Insights Inc$200,00011%
Friends of Blackwater Inc$200,000129%
Robert Morris University$196,00020%
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership$193,50032%
Allegheny County Parks Foundation$188,79026%
Woodlands Community Lenders Inc$180,00029%
Libera Inc$178,000220%
Zip With US Inc$175,000265%
West Virginia Association of Free Clinics Inc$171,0002n/a
West Virginia Association for Young Children$170,000354%
Future of Nursing West Virginia$170,000373%
The High Rocks Educational Corporation$167,00043%
Experience Learning Inc$164,09238%
New Vision Renewable Energy Inc$155,000216%
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild$154,10026%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$152,00020%
Washington & Jefferson College$150,00020%
Pierpont Community and Technical College$150,0001n/a
Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc$150,000119%
Private Industry Council Inc$150,00011%
Valley School of Ligonier$150,00011%
The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc$150,00011%
West Virginia Behavioral Healthcare Providers Association Inc$150,000140%
Stepping Stones Inc$147,00025%
Wheeling Country Day School$145,50023%
West Virginia Public Broadcasting Founda$145,00027%
Renewall Inc$145,000218%
National Youth Science Foundation Inc$142,00028%
Partnership of African American Churches$140,00014%
Concord University Research and Development Corporation$140,000111%
Wheeling Health Right Inc$137,00023%
Congressional Education Foundation$136,250142%
A Second Chance Inc$136,10020%
Coal River Group Inc$135,0002n/a
West Virginia Child Abuse Network Inc$135,00028%
The Perennial Project$135,000263%
Homeless Children's Education Fund$135,00025%
Mountwest Community & Technical College$133,3341n/a
Green Building Alliance$130,00017%
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh$130,000212%
American Friends Service Committee$130,0002n/a
Wv School of Osteopathic Medicine$129,7001n/a
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy$125,00011%
Allegheny Partners for Out-Of- School Time Apost Inc$125,000112%
Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture$125,00023%
Community Access Inc$125,00019%
Seed Sower Inc$125,00019%
Committee of Seventy$125,00023%
Religious Coalition for Community Renewal Inc$125,000111%
Friends of the Cheat Inc$125,00024%
Golden Girl Inc$123,00022%
Hospice of Huntington Inc$120,00011%
The Martinsburg Initiative Inc$120,000112%
West Virginia Health Information Network Inc$120,00022%
Main Street Morgantown Inc$120,000153%
City of Pittsburgh$113,4001n/a
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$112,00010%
Westmoreland County Community College Education Foundation Inc$112,000112%
Wvu at Parkersburg Foundation Inc$110,90023%
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc$110,000220%
Preston Taylor Community Health Center Centers Inc$110,00011%
Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc$110,00011%
Heritage Farm Foundation$105,000111%
Civil-Military Innovation Institute Inc$102,50010%
Mid-Ohio Valley Rural Health Alliance$101,8002n/a
Wv Hive Network Inc$100,000110%
Monongalia Health System Inc$100,00010%
Washington County Council on Economic Development$100,000113%
National School Boards Association$100,00011%
Montgomery General Health Care System Inc$100,0001n/a
United Way of Central West Virginia$100,00021%
United Way of Harrison County Inc$100,00015%
Allegheny County Department of Human Services$100,0001n/a
Friends of New River Gorge National River$100,0001n/a
Goodnation Foundation Inc$100,00010%
Good News Mountaineer Garage Inc$100,00015%
Center for Excellence in Education$100,00013%
Wv Trail Inc$100,000191%
Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education$100,000112%
Mylan Park Foundation Inc$100,00012%
Waynesburg University$100,00010%
Pollen 8 Inc$100,00016%
Capitol Market Inc$100,000110%
United Mineworkers of America Career Center Inc$100,00017%
Rivers to Ridges Heritage Trail Inc$92,0002n/a
Shepherd Entrepreneurship and Research$91,542155%
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit$90,0002n/a
Mountain State Spotlight Inc$90,00018%
West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute Inc$85,40016%
Augusta Heritage Center Inc$84,4001n/a
West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation$80,00019%
Rural Health Access Corporation Dba Coalfield Health Center$80,00012%
Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation$80,00010%
The Rand Corporation$75,00010%
Mon Valley Initiative$75,00011%
Access 304 Inc$75,000131%
Mon Valley Alliance Foundation$75,00017%
Wheeling Hospital Inc$75,00010%
County of Greene$75,0001n/a
One Voice Inc$75,000162%
Regional Economic Development Corporation of Sw Pa$75,000123%
Change Inc$72,00010%
Yew Mountain Center$71,000142%
Advantage Valley Community Development Corp$70,000137%
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development Inc$70,00022%
Cortland Acres Association Inc$67,00011%
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Inc$65,00053%
Manchester Academic Charter School$65,00011%
Mountain State Trail Alliance Inc$65,000171%
Job Squad Inc$63,00011%
Sprouting Farms Corporation$62,50014%
The Bradley Center Inc$60,00010%
Camden on Gauley Medical Center Inc$60,00010%
West Virginia Farmers Market Association Inc$60,000121%
Unlimited Future Inc$60,000112%
Economic Development Greater East Edge Incorporated$58,000110%
Advancing Academics$55,000260%
Candid$53,00040%
Inspiring Dreams Network Corp$52,500140%
Discover the Real West Virginia Foundation Inc$50,000135%
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh$50,00010%
West Virginia Health Improvement Institute Inc$50,0001n/a
Braddock's Battlefield History Center$50,000115%
Huntington Wv Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Foundation Inc$50,000142%
Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation$50,00011%
Oil Gas & Industrial Historical as Inc$50,00016%
Appalachian Community Capital Corporation$50,00011%
Innovation Works Inc$50,00010%
Nazareth Farm Inc$50,00017%
West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences Inc$50,000120%
New Roots Community Farm Inc$50,00017%
Brownsville Area School District$50,0001n/a
West Virginia University Research Corporation$50,00010%
The McGee Foundation$50,000116%
Davis & Elkins College$50,00010%
Center of Life$50,00012%
Putnam County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Rails to Trails Conservancy$46,35010%
Carnegie Hall Inc$45,00015%
Wheeling Symphony Society Inc$45,00012%
Huntington Symphony Orchestra Association Inc$45,00017%
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc$45,00012%
Seemore Impact Labs$43,800115%
Contemporary American Theater Festival$43,50021%
Tri-State Local Foods Inc$43,000111%
The West Virginia Land Trust Inc$40,00011%
Theatre Arts of West Virginia Inc$40,000115%
Spotted Owl Health Care Organization Inc$40,000156%
Southern Appalachian Labor School Foundation Inc$35,00024%
City of Morgantown$35,0001n/a
Facing Hunger Foodbank Inc$35,00010%
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission$32,5001n/a
CHARLES T CHUCK MATHENA II co RICHARD L DAVIS$30,00012%
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum$30,00018%
Wv Professional Dance Company Inc$30,000114%
The Old Brick Playhouse Company$30,000114%
West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness Inc$30,00010%
The West Virginia Railroad Museum Inc$30,0001n/a
Bluefield Arts and Revitalization Corporation$30,00012%
Keith Albee Performing Arts Center Inc$30,00012%
Developmental Therapy Center Inc$27,00012%
Rural Emergencytrauma Institute Inc$26,58012%
West Virginia Music Hall of Fame Inc$25,000115%
Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation$25,00011%
Foundations Inc$25,00010%
WV Alliance for Sustainable Families$25,000113%
West Virginia State University Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Neighborhood Community Development Fund$25,00010%
Pearl S Buck Birthplace Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Elk River Trail Foundation Inc$25,000122%
Allegheny Land Trust$25,00011%
West Virginia Youth Symphony Inc$20,000117%
Bituminous Coal Heritage Foundation$20,0001n/a
The Consortium for Public Education$20,00011%
Montour Trail Council$20,00011%
Assemble Inc$15,00012%
Alderson Broaddus University Inc$15,00010%
Christian Help Inc of Mingo County$15,0001n/a
The City Theatre Company Inc$15,00011%
Glenville State University Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Appalachia Service Project Inc$15,00010%
Light of Life Ministries Inc$10,00010%
Asset Inc$10,00011%
Women for Economic and Leadership Development$10,00011%
Natures Mountain Classroom$6,5001n/a
Leadership Pittsburgh$5,00010%
Slb Radio Productions Inc$5,00010%
The Society for Art in Crafts$5,00010%
The Cultural Foundation of Harrison County Inc$5,00013%
Little Kanawha Area Development Corporation$4,87017%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 47 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $6,134,886 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCoalfield Development Corporation: $2,338,976 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMarshall University Research Corporation: $1,943,700 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGeneration West Virginia Inc: $1,763,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetWest Virginia Community Development Hub Inc: $1,250,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetPittsburgh Cultural Trust: $1,205,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPartner Community Capital Inc: $1,133,750 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $990,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc: $955,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetAllegheny Conference on Community Development: $875,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWest Virginians for Affordable Health Care: $845,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetFayette County Cultural Trust: $700,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetCamc Health Education and Research Institute Inc: $685,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGrow Ohio Valley Inc: $669,902 over 3y, 17% of budgetTeam for West Virginia Children: $650,395 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFuture Generations University Corporation: $645,150 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetWest Virginia Nonprofit Association Inc: $622,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetCatalyst Connection: $620,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEverychild Now: $561,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetWest Virginia Oral Health Coalition Inc: $553,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetPittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc: $550,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPittsburgh Symphony Inc: $545,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRivers of Steel Heritage Corporation: $525,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWest Virginia Rural Health Association Inc: $525,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetGrantmakers of Western Pennsylvania: $522,200 over 5y, 13% of budgetMarshall University Foundation Incorporated: $511,400 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFilm Pittsburgh: $510,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetEdventure Group Inc: $505,300 over 3y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Opera Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPittsburgh Public Theater Corporation: $465,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMountaineer Food Bank Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Museum of Pittsburgh: $450,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetProject Healthy Kids Inc: $445,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetBricolage: $425,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetPhilanthropy West Virginia Inc: $425,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetAttack Theatre Inc: $407,700 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Progress Fund: $400,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPennsylvania Environmental Council Inc: $400,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe West Virginia Chamber Foundation: $395,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetLewis County Family Resource: $375,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetOglebay Institute: $369,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetThe Reach Initiative Inc: $352,500 over 3y, 50% of budgetChatham University: $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWest Virginia Local Health Inc: $345,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetPittsburgh Chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Foundation Inc: $335,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWest Virginia Food & Farm Coalition Inc: $325,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWv Perinatal Partnership Inc: $310,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV119.3× affinity65 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Buhl Foundation · Highmark 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.

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How do I get to Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation

How much does Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation give?
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation reported 198 grants totaling $13,992,543 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 102 and 139 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (13%), Community Improvement (13%).
Who are Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($6.1M), Coalfield Development Corporation ($2.3M), Marshall University Research Corporation ($1.9M).
Does Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Eqt Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation based?
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is based in PA.

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 334 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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