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.

Where is Frederick R Benson Trust based?

Frederick R Benson Trust is based in IN.

Frederick R Benson Trust

Frederick R Benson Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Frederick R Benson Trust

Q: 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.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$166kHealth$75kHuman Services$70kArts & Culture$40kReligion$33kRecreation & Sports$21kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k52 grants · $55k
$10k–50k1 grant · $28k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Red Cross of the Wabash Valley	$27,667
Gibault Inc	$2,000
14th & Chestnut Community Center	$2,000
Swope Art Museum	$2,000
Hamilton Center Inc	$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
St Benedict Church	$2,000
Terre Haute Area Meals on Wheels Inc	$1,600
Mental Health America in Vigo County Inc	$1,500
Wabash Activity Center	$1,500
Candles Holocaust Museum	$1,500
Saint Joseph University Parish	$1,500

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.

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Its 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 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$485k · 61 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$485k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%

+21%

Still filing today

48%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

HC
HAMILTON CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +21%
SS
Sheldon Swope Art Museum Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +137%
GI
Gibault Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%

Funded once

WV
WABASH VALLEY GOODWILL INC
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +21%
FF
First Friends Preschool
one grant, 2022 · $800
FO
Friends of Historic Allen Chapel
one grant, 2020 · $500

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.

United Way of the Wabash Valley Inc

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.

Philanthropy

Arc of Vigo County Inc

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…

Human Services

Terre Haute Boys & Girls Club

To provide recreational activities, programs, and supervision for boys and girls

Youth Development

Wabash Valley Recovery Center

Health

Habitat for Humanity International Wabash County Hfh

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.

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Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc

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…

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Catholic Charities Terre Haute Inc

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.

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Vna Extended Home Care

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.

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85 Hope Inc

85 hope is inspired by the gospel to provide free primary healthcare services to uninsured, low-income residents of wabash county, indiana.

Health

South Central Indiana Housing Opportunities Corpor

To provide affordable housing opportunities

—

Vanderburgh County Casa Inc

Civil Rights

Meals on Wheels of Evansville Inc

Food & Nutrition

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child-Adult Resource Services Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)

34/37

Grantees still filing

25/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$334,646Human Services$67,633Health$45,971Education$20,500Arts & Culture$12,000Environment$10,250Community Improvement$6,000

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.

Wabash Valley Community Foundation IncIN48.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frederick R Benson Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frederick R Benson Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home