Louisiana · Private foundation
Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 149
- Grants FY2025
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 91
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M 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 | 145 | $10M | 62% |
| FY2024 | 91 | $9.5M | 62% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $7.4M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $6.8M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $11M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $7.9M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $9.6M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $11M | 62% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | $12,300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brother Martin High School | $4,002,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans | $3,217,050 | 9 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $3,000,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $2,600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Archbishop Rummel High School | $2,500,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Team Gleason Foundation | $2,150,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $1,500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of the Incarnate Word | $1,200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jesuit High School of New Orleans Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 22% |
Show all 188 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 129 recipients with no EIN on record ($40M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation give?
- Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation reported 149 grants totaling $11,103,745 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (29%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ochsner Clinic Foundation ($12M), Brother Martin High School ($4.0M), Notre Dame Seminary of New Orleans ($3.2M).
- Does Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.
- Where is Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation based?
- Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation is based in LA.
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