Indiana · Private foundation
Frederick R Benson Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,667
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Frederick R Benson Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $83k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $84k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $83k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $84k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $86k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton Center Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Visiting Nurse Association of the Wabash Valley Inc | $12,821 | 6 | 0% |
| Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Gibault Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| St Benedict Catholic Church Terre Haute Inc | $11,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Light House Mission Inc | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Vigo County Historical Society Inc | $10,250 | 6 | 0% |
| League of Terre Haute Inc | $9,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Salvation Army | $9,500 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($253k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frederick R Benson Trust supplied at peak.
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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: Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc · Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc · Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation · Mary Smith Young Trust · Clara Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Indiana Chemical Trust Tr Ua-Fdt 320006018 · Hulman & Company Foundation Inc · United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc · The George F and Marion D Johnson Charitable Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Rose Ladies Aid Society · The Weston Wabash Foundation
How this is measured
About Frederick R Benson Trust
- How much does Frederick R Benson Trust give?
- Frederick R Benson Trust reported 53 grants totaling $83,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Frederick R Benson Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (33%), Health (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Frederick R Benson Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hamilton Center Inc ($14k), Visiting Nurse Association of the Wabash Valley Inc ($13k), Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ($12k).
- Does Frederick R Benson Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frederick R Benson Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frederick R Benson Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wabash Valley Community Foundation Inc, Gregory L Gibson Charitable Foundation Inc, Max L Gibson & Jacqueline Gibson Foundation.
- Where is Frederick R Benson Trust based?
- Frederick R Benson Trust is based in IN.
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