How much does The Benter Foundation give?

The Benter Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,368,362 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Benter Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Arts & Culture (20%), Community Improvement (12%).

Who are The Benter Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Idsa Education and Research Foundation ($7.0M), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($3.0M), Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership ($3.0M).

Does The Benter Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Benter 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 Benter Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.

Where is The Benter Foundation based?

The Benter Foundation is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Private foundation

The Benter 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 50
Grants FY2025: 37
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $800,000
Organizations funded a year: 37 to 50; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $179k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Benter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	40	$3.4M	15%
FY2024	37	$3.1M	24%
FY2023	39	$2.1M	15%
FY2022	40	$5.8M	13%
FY2021	49	$4.2M	18%
FY2020	50	$4.0M	26%
FY2019	46	$4.2M	28%
FY2018	40	$2.7M	43%

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$14MArts & Culture$6.4MCommunity Improvement$3.9MEducation$2.7MRecreation & Sports$999kPublic Benefit$763kEnvironment$686kPhilanthropy$633kOther$0

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Idsa Education and Research Foundation	$7,031,900	4	52%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation	$3,000,000	3	6%
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership	$2,966,900	5	8%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$1,763,264	5	n/a
Pittsburgh Opera Inc	$1,027,000	9	2%
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation	$940,000	5	4%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy	$850,500	8	4%
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust	$785,000	8	0%
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc	$773,500	8	1%
Propel Schools Foundation	$670,000	4	11%

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All grantees of The Benter Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Idsa Education and Research Foundation	$7,031,900	4	52%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation	$3,000,000	3	6%
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership	$2,966,900	5	8%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$1,763,264	5	n/a
Pittsburgh Opera Inc	$1,027,000	9	2%
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation	$940,000	5	4%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy	$850,500	8	4%
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust	$785,000	8	0%
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc	$773,500	8	1%
Propel Schools Foundation	$670,000	4	11%
Point Park University	$497,991	5	0%
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh	$448,890	9	9%
Quantum Theatre Inc	$404,100	9	5%
Pittsburgh Glass Center Inc	$399,500	9	4%
Bike Pittsburgh Inc	$387,500	9	6%
The Forbes Funds	$350,000	5	4%
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania	$333,334	2	3%
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest	$329,000	8	5%
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation	$262,500	8	1%
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh	$260,000	4	1%
The Mattress Factory Ltd	$257,500	9	2%
City of Pittsburgh	$250,000	5	n/a
Reading Ready Pittsburgh	$227,000	3	36%
New Sun Rising	$205,000	2	3%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank	$190,000	3	0%
Grow Pittsburgh	$184,500	7	4%
Attack Theatre Inc	$177,500	9	3%
Chatham Baroque Inc	$176,000	9	13%
New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts	$160,000	7	5%
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh	$160,000	8	0%
The City Theatre Company Inc	$159,750	9	2%
Carnegie Mellon University	$142,000	3	0%
City of Asylum	$133,800	4	4%
Riverlife	$120,000	3	4%
Friends of the Riverfront Inc	$115,000	3	3%
Veterans Health Foundation	$113,400	1	n/a
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania	$113,000	8	0%
412 Food Rescue Inc	$110,000	3	1%
Hello Neighbor	$105,000	6	5%
Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc	$100,000	1	12%
Steel City Squash Inc	$93,750	9	2%
Women for a Healthy Environment	$90,000	9	2%
Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association and Irene Kaufmann Cent	$80,500	6	0%
Spotlight Pa	$75,000	3	0%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit	$75,000	2	0%
Neighborhood Allies Inc	$65,000	3	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Pennsylvania	$60,000	2	1%
Just Harvest Education Fund	$60,000	5	1%
STEM Coding Lab Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Publicsource	$50,000	2	2%
Venture Outdoors Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Sister Cities Association of Pittsburgh	$50,000	1	43%
Second Avenue Commons Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$50,000	1	0%
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Bridgeway Capital Inc	$45,000	3	0%
Hill District Federal Cred	$37,000	1	n/a
Pa Cleanways of Allegheny County Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Assemble Inc	$30,000	6	1%
Casa San Jose	$25,000	1	1%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf	$25,000	1	0%
Shiftworks Community and Public Arts	$24,000	1	2%
The Society for Art in Crafts	$21,000	2	1%
Bike Share Pittsburgh Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Trade Institute of Pittsburgh	$17,500	2	1%
Alumni Theater Company	$17,500	2	2%
Cre8dance Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Imani Christian Academy	$15,000	1	0%
Garfield Community Farm Inc	$15,000	2	3%
Amachi Pittsburgh Inc	$12,500	2	1%
Liberty Elementary Academic Fund	$10,000	1	n/a
Laurel Highlands Council Boy Scouts of America	$10,000	1	0%
Preservation Pittsburgh	$10,000	1	n/a
Doors Open Pittsburgh Inc	$10,000	4	8%
Cancer Bridges	$10,000	2	1%
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation	$10,000	2	0%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh	$7,500	1	0%
Homeless Children's Education Fund	$7,500	1	1%
Film Pittsburgh	$7,500	1	1%
Cr Jrs Chip	$7,500	1	0%
Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh	$7,500	1	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$7,500	1	0%
Three Rivers Mothers Milk Bank D/B/A Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank	$5,000	1	1%
Corning Dances and Company dba Corning Works	$5,000	1	4%
Silk Screen	$5,000	1	2%
Steel City Rowing Corporation	$5,000	1	2%
The Mentoring Partnership of Sw Pa	$5,000	1	1%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh	$5,000	1	0%
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc	$1,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

The Benter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 80.

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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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA120.5× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Eqt Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Upmc Group · The Burke 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.

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About The Benter Foundation

How much does The Benter Foundation give?: The Benter Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,368,362 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Benter Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Arts & Culture (20%), Community Improvement (12%).
Who are The Benter Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Idsa Education and Research Foundation ($7.0M), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($3.0M), Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership ($3.0M).
Does The Benter Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Benter 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 Benter Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments.
Where is The Benter Foundation based?: The Benter Foundation is based in PA.