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Newman W Benson Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k16 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SS PETER AND PAUL CHURCH | $500,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NORTH ROME CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $10,250 |
| SCRANTON DIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL | $10,000 |
| FRENCH AZILUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WEST WARREN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TOWANDA LIONS CLUB | $5,700 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAINS MISSION CENTER | $5,044 |
| TOWANDA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| UNION VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TOWANDA ROTARY CLUB | $5,000 |
| MASONIC UNION LODGE 108 | $5,000 |
| TOWANDA BLACK KNIGHTS TOUCHDOWN CLU | $4,000 |
| NORTH ROME WESLEYAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +110% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2021, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- NRNORTH ROME CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +130%
- TATOWANDA AREA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +77%
- FAFRENCH AZILUM INC3× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- ECEPIPHANY CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAYREone grant, 2019 · $8k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF THE EPIPHANYone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Care, sale, and placement of abandoned animals.
Shelter and care for abandoned pets
To rescue and place abandoned and stray pets
The Ark is committed to providing compassionate care and placement of homeless animals, alleviating overpopulation of companion animals by promoting low cost spay/neuter programs, and promoting and improving the welfare of all animals…
Humane society
Taking care of stray animals and putting them up for adoption, educating the public on the care of animals, and encouraging the spaying or neutering of animals.
To provide humane care for stranded, lost, stolen, abandoned and unwanted dogs and cats without euthanasia
To provide vet care for unwanted animals and adoptions.
To operate an animal shelter, educate the public, and prevent cruelty to animals.
The society runs an animal shelter that offers pet adoption, veterinary services, burials, etc.
We provide care for and find permanent placement for animals in need. our funds are used to operate a shelter where animals are properly cared for. we provide food, kennel equipment, boarding, training and medical care and transport for…
To promote the adoption of animals, prevent all forms of animal cruelty and neglect and shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bradford County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is French Azilum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 62 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 NORTH ROME CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWANDA AREA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AZILUM INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRADFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Happy Tails No Kill Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 0042 ↗
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: United Way of Bradford County · Newman W and Patricia a Benson Charitable Foundation · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Newman W Benson 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.
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