· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| WILD JAEGER VETERANS ADVENTURES | $2,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- UBUNION BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 114 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L O Benton Banking Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L O Benton Banking Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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