· Private foundation
The Ben E Factor 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $561k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $760k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - LAFAYETTE | $500,000 |
| HIGHLAND BAPTIST SCHOOL | $240,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $120,000 |
| ACADIAN BAPTIST CENTER | $100,000 |
| LA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOM | $100,000 |
| INDIA PARTNERS | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| LEADING THE WAY | $40,000 |
| MISSION PREBORN | $40,000 |
| GOSPEL LAKES MINISTRY | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOC | $40,000 |
| THE VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | $40,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE | $30,000 |
| ST MARTINVILLE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHI | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Ben E Factor Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- LCLOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +1%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +134%
- IPIndia Partners6× · 2020–2025 · $598k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $15k
Compassion International Incorporatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +16%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Our mission is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel through all forms of media and broadcast. We are a Christian organization spreading the word of God to the ends of the earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aim High Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 83 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 LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds India Partners ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADIAN BAPTIST CENTER ↗
- Who funds Zion's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS DINER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds IBERIA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds MARANATHA EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds MOTHER TERESA FOUNDATION INC DBA UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD HUNGER RELIEF INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Proclaiming the Gospel ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB 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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Servant Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 The Ben E Factor Foundation 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.