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Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$173k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
44
Grants FY2026
13
Organizations funded FY2025
31%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
7
Total assets, FY2026
$3.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 31% of the organizations Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2026still arriving11$173k18%
FY202513$153k31%
FY202414$164k21%
FY202318$174k39%
FY202214$148k21%
FY202117$145k35%
FY202014$145k43%
FY201914$160k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$1.5MRecreation & Sports$12k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
WV
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$875,000100%
Emory University$20,0004n/a
West Virginia Wesleyan College$14,00060%
Belmont University$13,00040%
North Carolina State$12,00032%
Point Park University$12,00030%
Indiana University School of Medicine$12,0004n/a
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$11,50040%
Manhattanville University$10,00020%
University of Pittsburgh$9,00040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($455k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $875,000 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetWest Virginia Wesleyan College: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina State: $12,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPoint Park University: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetManhattanville University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavis & Elkins College: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeton Hill University: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFranciscan University of Steubenville: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWake Forest University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransylvania University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheeling Jesuit University Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany College: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWaynesburg University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRobert Morris University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTiffin University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeton Hall University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington & Jefferson College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Roche University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbus College of Art & Design: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXavier University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst College Trustees: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChatham University: $1,000 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 32.

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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.

Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403WV20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · Scott Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Verizon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Castelli Charitable Trust · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Premier Bank Foundation · West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Ruth M Hughes Scholarship Trust · Ritton Family 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 Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund

How much does Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund give?
Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund reported 44 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($875k), Emory University ($20k), West Virginia Wesleyan College ($14k).
Does Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403, Scott Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
Where is Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund based?
Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund is based in WV.

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 55 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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