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.

Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund

Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$173k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2026 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$7,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$7,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$6,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$6,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$6,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$6,000
FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY	$6,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY	$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in WV; by stated purpose, 76%.

Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fundlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 26 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+12%

Still filing today

54%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

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.

Backed again, and grew

WV
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
10× · 2017–2026 · $875k · revenue +5%
BU
Belmont University
4× · 2021–2026 · $13k · revenue +43%
NC
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%

Funded once

MV
Mount Vernon Nazarene University
one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +5%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +23%
SC
Savannah College of Art and DesignIncgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +66%

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.

04Its field

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.

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manhattanville University; the most unlike its peers is North Carolina State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

25/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,018,000Other$510,259Recreation & Sports$12,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home