· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WEST WARREN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FRENCH AZILUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SCRANTON DIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL | $10,000 |
| TOWANDA LIONS CLUB | $5,700 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAINS MISSION CENTER | $5,044 |
| MASONIC UNION LODGE 108 | $5,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TOWANDA CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| UNION VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TOWANDA ROTARY CLUB | $5,000 |
| TOWANDA BLACK KNIGHTS TOUCHDOWN CLU | $4,000 |
| HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +110% since the first grant, against +79% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 62 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.
- 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 ↗
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: United Way of Bradford County · Newman W and Patricia a Benson Charitable Foundation · Tuscarora Wayne Mutual Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Newman W Benson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Newman W Benson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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