· Private foundation
Paul T Benton Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILLSAPS COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| HOME OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| BACK BAY MISSION | $2,707 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
23 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 20 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACANTON ACADEMIC FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +60%
- BBBACK BAY MISSION5× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +97%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MWMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +109%
- TTBLFone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES & PARKSone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
The mission of the foundation is to oversee the acquisition of gifts, contributions and grants for sponsored research for individuals, industries, private organizations and government agencies and to assist with transferring technology…
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
We create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning.
To protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout mississippi
To strengthen the university of mississippi through quality programs and services that enhance communications and build mutually beneficial relationships among our alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and students.
To conserve, promote, and protect the open spaces and green places of ecological cultural or scenic significance in the counties of the mississippi coastal plain.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smhs Girls Soccer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 66 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 Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GRACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CANTON ACADEMIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL HOLMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY MISSION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF BILOXI-OCEAN SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds SEASHORE MISSION INC ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation · Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Paul T Benton Charitable Trust 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.