California · Private foundation
The Benificus Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $186M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $512,663
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,776,097
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 52
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Benificus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $177M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $110M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $95M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $59M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $71M | 55% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $8.7M | 10% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $19M | 19% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $19M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Imperative Foundation | $133,863,577 | 4 | 17% |
| Aspen Global Change Institute Inc | $62,442,509 | 6 | 32% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $33,479,713 | 4 | 2% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $31,283,501 | 2 | 4% |
| Ted Foundation Inc | $31,238,330 | 5 | 11% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $26,936,869 | 5 | 18% |
| New Schools Fund | $24,315,937 | 7 | 9% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $18,149,266 | 4 | 3% |
| The ONE Campaign | $16,372,140 | 5 | 23% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $15,368,702 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($62M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Benificus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 86 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Sergey Brin Family Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Valhalla Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
How this is measured
About The Benificus Foundation
- How much does The Benificus Foundation give?
- The Benificus Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $186,037,167 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 52 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Benificus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Education (31%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Benificus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Climate Imperative Foundation ($134M), Aspen Global Change Institute Inc ($62M), William Marsh Rice University ($33M).
- Does The Benificus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Benificus Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Benificus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Sergey Brin Family Foundation.
- Where is The Benificus Foundation based?
- The Benificus Foundation is based in CA.
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