New Hampshire · Private foundation
Doris L Benz Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $520k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2026
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2025
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Doris L Benz Trust’s FY2026 grant dollars went to New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2026
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $262,346
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 19
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 42% of the organizations Doris L Benz Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 20 | $257k | 40% |
| FY2025 | 19 | $266k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $230k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $266k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $228k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $233k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huggins Hospital | $88,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Doris L Benz Community Center Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 49% |
| Endicott College | $65,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Lowell Childrens Fund Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 56% |
| Partners in Development Incorporated | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Agassiz Village Founded by Mr & Mrs Harry E Burroughs | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center Harbor Firefighters Association | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Hero Pups Inc | $33,026 | 2 | 6% |
| Plummer Youth Promise Inc | $32,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Red Sox Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($493k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Doris L Benz Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Charles E Harwood Trust · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Marjory H Yeakley Charitable Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Doris L Benz Trust
- How much does Doris L Benz Trust give?
- Doris L Benz Trust reported 21 grants totaling $519,694 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Doris L Benz Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Human Services (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are Doris L Benz Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Huggins Hospital ($89k), Doris L Benz Community Center Inc ($85k), Endicott College ($65k).
- Does Doris L Benz Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Doris L Benz Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Doris L Benz Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Charles E Harwood Trust.
- Where is Doris L Benz Trust based?
- Doris L Benz Trust is based in NH.
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