· Private foundation
Frederick R Benson Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k52 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross of the Wabash Valley | $27,667 |
| Swope Art Museum | $2,000 |
| Hamilton Center Inc | $2,000 |
| 14th & Chestnut Community Center | $2,000 |
| Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc | $2,000 |
| Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of the Wabash Valley | $2,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Wabash Valley | $2,000 |
| Vigo County Historical Society Inc | $2,000 |
| Gibault Inc | $2,000 |
| St Benedict Church | $2,000 |
| Terre Haute Area Meals on Wheels Inc | $1,600 |
| Saint Joseph University Parish | $1,500 |
| Candles Holocaust Museum | $1,500 |
| Mental Health America in Vigo County Inc | $1,500 |
| Senior Education Ministries | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 98% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- HCHAMILTON CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +21%
- SSSheldon Swope Art Museum Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +137%
- GIGibault Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WVWABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +9%
- FFFirst Friends Preschoolone grant, 2022 · $800
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Advances the common good in the Wabash Valley by partnering with volunteers, companies and organizations to fund quality programs and initiatives in three core impact areas: Education, Health and Community Basics.
The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…
To provide recreational activities, programs, and supervision for boys and girls
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
The VIM Clinic provides primary and preventive health care, dental, mental health, medications and health education without cost to medically underserved individuals in Monroe and Owen counties, Indiana. Household incomes for patients fall…
Catholic Charities Terre Haute is a comprehensive, direct services agency whose purpose is to serve the poor, the homeless, the elderly, the neglected children and the needy.
The organization was established to promote health, mobility, dignity, independence and social well-being for individuals and families in the Indiana County, PA area by providing home care and related services.
85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.
To provide affordable housing opportunities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child-Adult Resource Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Senior Education Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 80 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 HAMILTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF THE WABASH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Breast Cancer Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Gibault Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHT HOUSE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds League of Terre Haute Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds 14th & Chestnut Community Center ↗
- Who funds SENIOR EDUCATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE AREA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAPPINESS BAG PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIGO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TREES Inc ↗
- Who funds CANDLES ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN INDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TERRE HAUTE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds reTHink Inc ↗
- Who funds SHINE FOSTER FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity ↗
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: 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
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 Frederick R Benson Trust 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.
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.