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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.

$73k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Paul T Benton Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$73k0%
FY202211$104k27%
FY202111$153k18%
FY202020$124k50%
FY201922$77k55%
FY201826$214k50%
FY201725$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$617kHuman Services$108kPublic Benefit$44kAnimals$42kPhilanthropy$17kEnvironment$16kHealth$16kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MI
MO
VA
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul T Benton Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMillsaps College: $590,458 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPalmer Home for Children: $63,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Better Life Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMississippi Wildlife Fisheries and Parks Foundation Inc: $18,963 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHome of Grace Corporation: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCanton Academic Foundation Inc: $12,453 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Holmes Christian School: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBack Bay Mission: $5,957 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of South Mississippi: $5,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding the Gulf Coast: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Mississippi: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoaves and Fishes Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaritime & Seafood Industry Museum: $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhr-O'Keefe Museum of Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Children's Home Society: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lexington Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSeashore Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Auxiliary of Biloxi-Ocean Springs: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoom Boom Committee Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bulldog Club Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncMS17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Paul T Benton Charitable Trust

How much does Paul T Benton Charitable Trust give?
Paul T Benton Charitable Trust reported 3 grants totaling $72,707 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paul T Benton Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (69%), Human Services (12%), Public Benefit (5%).
Who are Paul T Benton Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Millsaps College ($590k), Palmer Home for Children ($63k), The Better Life Foundation Inc ($30k).
Does Paul T Benton Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul T Benton Charitable Trust 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 Paul T Benton Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation, Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inc.
Where is Paul T Benton Charitable Trust based?
Paul T Benton Charitable Trust is based in MS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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