· Private foundation
Drs Marie Uberti Benz and Robert L Benz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of DRS MARIE UBERTI BENZ AND ROBERT L BENZ FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANKENAU HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PENN LEGACY FUND | $5,000 |
| PENN GRAPPLER'S FUND | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISREAL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION | $1,491 |
| KIMMEL CENTER | $1,000 |
| LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| MANN MUSIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CYNWYD HERITAGE TRAIL | $515 |
| US WRESTLING FOUNDATION | $456 |
| CAPE MAY COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $300 |
| BIGHORN BASIN PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE | $295 |
| ENDOWMENT FUND OF MACCABI USA SPORTS FOR ISAREL | $250 |
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 (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KCKIMMEL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +75%
- TATHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +23%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- ESELEVATION SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL HISTORY EXPLORATIONone grant, 2023 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $750
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Lower Merion Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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. 43 of the 75 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Cape May County Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN BASIN PALEOTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF MACCABI USA SPORTS FOR ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP POLICE PENSION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds All Star Code Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt Me Bluegrass Pet Rescue ↗
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: Hess Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Hamlin Family Foundation Inc · The Nerney Family Foundation · The Snider Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Drs Marie Uberti Benz and Robert L Benz Foundation 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.
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
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.