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.

Doris L Benz Trust

Doris L Benz Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Doris L Benz Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$520k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$262k

Largest

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$291kHealth$259kEducation$155kArts & Culture$89kAnimals$68kYouth Development$58kFood & Nutrition$55kOther$0

02FY2026 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k7 grants · $37k
$10k–50k13 grants · $220k
$250k+1 grant · $262k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$262,346
CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS	$20,000
HIDDEN BATTLES FOUNDATION INC	$20,000
FIRST RESPONDER THERAPY DOGS INC	$20,000
PATRIOT RESILIENT LEADER INSTITUTE	$20,000
AMAZING GRACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY	$20,000
AGASSIZ VILLAGE	$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE AMESBURY PUBLIC	$15,000
PLYMOUTH AREA COMMUNITY CLOSET	$15,000
CENTER HARBOR FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC	$15,000
ENDICOTT COLLEGE	$15,000
COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS INC	$15,000
DORIS BENZ COMMUNITY CENTER	$15,000
SOUTHERN NH UNIVERSITY	$10,000
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC	$8,676

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$878k · 21 repeat orgs$601k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$878k

$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+8%

Still filing today

52%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

HH
Huggins Hospital
5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +26%
ENDICOTT COLLEGE
6× · 2021–2026 · $65k · revenue +37%
HP
HERO PUPS INC
2× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue +93%

Funded once

TA
THE ALS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2024 · $30k
NE
New England Equine Rescue - North Inc
one grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
WW
WARREN WENTWORTH AMBULANCE SERVICE
one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue -14%

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.

04Its field

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.

Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health

New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation

Health

New England Animal Health Inc

Science & Tech

Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Philanthropy

Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation of Nh

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Health Strategies of New Hampshire Inc

Health

German Shepherd Rescue of New England

Provide a safe harbor for german shepherd dogs

Animals

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation

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Nh-Vt Palliative Services

Provide funding for in home palliative care to patients undergoing treatment for advanced cancer and their caregivers.

Health

Ocean State Cancer Crushers

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Lakes Region Consumer Advisory Board

LRCABs mission is to provide peer support to those who are currently receiving or have received mental health services and to empower them to control their own lives and to influence the resources that affect their lives.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hero Pups Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lakes Region Search and Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,523,423Other$840,007Human Services$217,500Health$148,850Education$95,000Animals$83,026International$50,000

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.

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.

Salem Five Charitable Foundation IncMA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Doris L Benz Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris L Benz Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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