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The Benedict Foundation at a glance

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The Benedict Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$530kEducation$310kYouth Development$300kEmployment$25kCivil Rights$20kArts & Culture$10kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL$250,000
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$50,000
YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF IRC$25,000
MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDENS$15,000
SOUTHERN PREPARATORY ACADEMY$15,000
THE VNA AND HOSPICE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $10k → 12%LA PAZ CHATTANOOGA: $10k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHEIVEMENT CENTER: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$795k · 8 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$795k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+33%

Still filing today

88%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +23%
  • MB
    MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +36%
  • OR
    OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $95k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • HB
    HARBOR BRANCH OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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.

1
Marine Discovery Center

Protect florida coastal ecosystem via education, research and community stewardship.

Arts & Culture
2
Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals
3
Marine Resources Council of East Florida Inc

The mission of the marine resources council (mrc) is to maintain and enhance the quality of marine systems for the economic, recreational, aesthetic, and environmental use for the people of florida

Environment
4
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

—
5
Ocean Research and Educational
Science & Tech
6
Riverside Conservancy Inc

To create and expand sustainable living shorelines through educational outreach and land conservancy programs that utilize community-engaged design and to promote the heritage of working waterfronts and healthy habitats for the benefit of…

Environment
7
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
8
Clean Reefs
Environment
9
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
10
The Everglades Trust Inc

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

—
11
Wildlands Conservation Inc

Preservation of the environment through ecological research to preserve our national heritage

Environment
12
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Learning Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF IRC: $275,000 · OtherYOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION OF IRCEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SC…UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $70,000 · Other+5 moreINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $190,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INCMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $105,000 · EnvironmentMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INCOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $95,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INCREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $25,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $25,000 · Environment+2 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · EducationLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$620,000Environment$495,000Education$45,000Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INCORPORATED DBA THE MIAMI VALLEY SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $190,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREFLECTION RIDING ARBORETUM AND NATURE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Connections Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKEEP INDIAN RIVER BEAUTIFUL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget
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.

Olivia Delacruz Found…The Prentice Foundati…Indian River Communit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Olivia Delacruz Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Olivia Delacruz Foundation Inc · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Benedict Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Benedict Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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