· Private foundation
The Benedict-Miller Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of The Benedict-Miller Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 32 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Benedict-Miller Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $31k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Colorado Music Festival | $3,000 |
| St Simon-By-The-Sea | $2,350 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $2,100 |
| American Red Cross | $2,100 |
| Blue Hill Public Library-Fine Arts Fd | $2,000 |
| Good Shephard Food Bank of ME | $1,900 |
| The Bay School | $1,500 |
| Lincoln County Historical Assoc | $1,100 |
| Feedmore Inc | $1,000 |
| Colorado Film Society | $1,000 |
| Good Hart Artist Residency | $1,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $800 |
| Save Barnegat Bay Inc | $800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS7× · 2020–2026 · $22k · revenue +94%
- TBTHE BAY SCHOOL7× · 2020–2026 · $16k · revenue +67%
- BHBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY6× · 2020–2026 · $12k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue -35%
JOIN5× · 2020–2024 · $500 · revenue -49%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FILM SOCIETY FYE 531 ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Old Head Tide Church ↗
- Who funds CABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds KENT PLACE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOOD HART ARTIST RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINGRY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Benedict-Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Benedict-Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Join: 4% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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