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The Benjamin Family 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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$21kInternational$19kArts & Culture$19kEnvironment$8kAnimals$4kHealth$4kReligion$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$228k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EXUMA FOUNDATION$3,250
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC$1,250
WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY$1,000
RAYMOND JOHN WEAN FOUNDATION$500
LAKE METROPARKS$450
HIRAM COLLEGE$450
FREE INDEED PRISON MINIST INC$400
TRUMBALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARNTERSHIP$400
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY$400
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OCEAN ARKS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 8%HOSPICE BY THE SEA: $500 → 13%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $9k → 14%LAKE METROPARKS: $450 → 9%HIRAM COLLEGE: $2k → 12%CLOVER RECYCLING: $500 → 16%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $400 → 19%GRACE ARTS CENTER INC: $6k → 13%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $6k → 14%HIRAM COLLEGE: $686 → 12%CLOVER RECYCLING: $500 → 16%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $3k → 17%GRACE ARTS CENTER INC: $5k → 13%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $6k → 14%HIRAM COLLEGE: $450 → 12%FREE INDEED PRISON MINIST INC: $400 → 16%HAWKEN SCHOOL: $3k → 17%GRACE ARTS CENTER INC: $450 → 13%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $5k → 14%CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC: $2k → 16%WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 17%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $3k → 14%CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC: $1k → 16%EXUMA FOUNDATION: $11k → 17%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $3k → 14%CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC: $1k → 16%EXUMA FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DELIVERY: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 16%THE EXUMA FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 16%EXUMA FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 16%TRUMBALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARNTERSHIP: $1k → 16%TRUMBALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARNTERSHIP: $500 → 16%TRUMBALL NEIGHBORHOOD PARNTERSHIP: $400 → 16%ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF TRUMBULL COUNTY: $1k → 16%ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF TRUMBULL COUNTY: $1k → 16%ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF TRUMBULL COUNTY: $1k → 16%ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF TRUMBALL COUNTY: $685 → 16%WARREN CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%WARREN CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%TRUMBALL ART GALLERY: $1k → 16%BRITE ENERGY INNOVATORS: $500 → 16%WARREN GROWN: $500 → 16%WARREN GROWN: $500 → 16%RAYMOND JOHN WEAN FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 14 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$103k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • TE
    THE EXUMA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +19%
  • HS
    HAWKEN SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +76%
  • CP
    CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • OA
    Ocean Arks International Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -47%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Warren Wildlife Gallery
Arts & Culture
2
Clean Reefs
Environment
3
The John Marie and Joseph Whalen Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
4
Trugreen Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Wegrow Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
Environment
7
White Barn Project
Health
8
Environment Now
—
9
Sandbhreagh Wildlands Sanctuary and Trus
Environment
10
East Bay Power Plant
Health
11
Harry R Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology

The Center brings together diverse interests from the agricultural, forestry, and environmental communities for the purpose of retaining Maryland's working landscapes and the industries they support while protecting and improving the…

Food & Nutrition
12
Wormsloe Institute for Environ- Mental Historyincc/O Craig Barrow

To protect and preserve wormsloe in its entirety, while supporting research, education and interpretation of the property's unique ecological, historical, and cultural resources for the benefit of the present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership; the most unlike its peers is The Raymond John Wean Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $32,274 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE DUNMIRE MEMORIAL FUND: $6,000 · OtherTHE DUNMIRE MEMORIAL FUNDWARREN CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherWARREN CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+8 more: $5,075 · Other+8 moreTHE EXUMA FOUNDATION: $19,400 · InternationalTHE EXUMA FOUNDATIO…HAWKEN SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationHAWKEN SCHOOLCHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC: $4,150 · EducationCHICKADEE PRE-SC…HIRAM COLLEGE: $3,136 · EducationHIRAM COLLEGEGrace Arts Center Inc: $11,999 · Arts & CultureGrace Arts …Ocean Arks International Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentWEST CREEK CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $3,685 · AnimalsTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $2,300 · Community ImprovementBRITE ENERGY INNOVATORS: $900 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY: $400 · Food & Nutrition
Other$54,349International$19,400Education$16,286Arts & Culture$11,999Environment$6,000Animals$3,685Community Improvement$3,200Food & Nutrition$400

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EXUMA FOUNDATION: $19,400 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGrace Arts Center Inc: $11,999 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHAWKEN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Arks International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC: $4,150 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $3,685 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIRAM COLLEGE: $3,136 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWarren Grown: $1,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBRITE ENERGY INNOVATORS: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice by the Sea Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE EXUMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Grace Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Ocean Arks International Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICKADEE PRE-SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds WEST CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Warren Grown ↗
  • Who funds BRITE ENERGY INNOVATORS ↗
  • Who funds THE RAYMOND JOHN WEAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hospice by the Sea Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF THE MAHONING VALLEY ↗

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.

The Raymond John Wean…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Raymond John Wean FoundationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Benjamin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Benjamin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Benjamin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Benjamin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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