Colorado · Private foundation
P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 23 | $236k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $218k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $187k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $205k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $189k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $186k | 4% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $199k | 4% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation | $254,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble Inc | $237,897 | 9 | 11% |
| Darrow School | $227,500 | 9 | 0% |
| North Shore Country Day School | $177,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $82,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citizens for Conservation Inc | $48,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Samaritan Counseling Center | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House | $26,980 | 9 | 0% |
| Sage Gardeners | $23,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $22,200 | 9 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation | $254,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble Inc | $237,897 | 9 | 11% |
| Darrow School | $227,500 | 9 | 0% |
| North Shore Country Day School | $177,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $82,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Citizens for Conservation Inc | $48,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Samaritan Counseling Center | $28,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cheyenne Mountain Public Broadcast House | $26,980 | 9 | 0% |
| Sage Gardeners | $23,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc | $22,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $20,200 | 9 | 0% |
| US English Foundation Inc | $20,200 | 9 | 3% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $12,100 | 3 | 0% |
| The Challenge Foundation Inc | $9,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Theatreworks Silicon Valley | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Colorado College | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cmcarts Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($576k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation with peer funders
About P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation
- How much does P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation give?
- P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $268,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Arts & Culture (15%), Public Benefit (14%).
- Who are P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation ($254k), Barrington Youth Dance Ensemble Inc ($238k), Darrow School ($228k).
- Does P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation based?
- P Bruce and Virginia C Benson Foundation is based in CO.
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