· Private foundation
L O Benton Banking Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF ALBANY TX | $100,250 |
| JASPER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| PLAZA ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MARSHALL MEMORIAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ARTISANS VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| GA WRITERS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| EATONTON PUTNAM CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $5,500 |
| PUTNAM GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| OLD JAIL ARTS CENTER | $3,600 |
| LAKE OCONEE WINE FEST | $2,750 |
| GATEWOOD SCHOOL | $2,250 |
| WILD JAEGER VETERANS ADVENTURES | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $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 (FY22–23, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- GSGATEWOOD SCHOOLS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $366k · revenue +67%
- PAPIEDMONT ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +75%
- TATHE ARTISANS VILLAGE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OCOXFORD COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $500k
- TBTEMPLE BETH ISRAELone grant, 2019 · $143k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Peachtree presbyterian pre-school offers an early childhood education program that provides young children with a christian-centered environment where they may grow, learn, and develop.
Operation of a Christian School
School grades k-3 through 12
Provide a christian education for children through high school.
To provide an environment of learning and growth through curricula designed to meet the needs and interests of the whole child, with activities addressing individual learning styles and multiple intelligences.
The piedmont school strives daily to be the educational oasis that quenches the thirst of students who learn differently
Dutton christian school's primary exempt purpose is to provide a christian education to students from preschool through 8th grade.
To provide accelerated students a college-preparatory education in a Christ-centered environment.
The montessori school is dedicated to providing a supportive, challenging and culturally diverse educational environment. each child has the freedom to explore, cooperate, create and become. our montessori-trained guides and the…
Platt park children's center is a christian preschool reaching into the surrounding community through the love of christ. ppcc provides quality education in a safe, loving, play-based environment for children between the ages of two and a…
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
Legacy Christian School exists to equp the next generation in South Central Nebraska to be godly leaders by partnering with parents to disciple them into a biblical worldview through challenging academics for the glory of God.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ferst Readers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Old Jail Art Center. 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 38 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 114 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.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 L O Benton Banking 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.
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.