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The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn at a glance

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The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.0MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$905kInternational$423kRecreation & Sports$276kFood & Nutrition$127kPublic Benefit$125kHuman Services$82kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHITNEY MUSEAM OF AMERICAN ART$1,000,000
FULL PICTURE JUSTICE (COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE)$10,000
GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA$10,000
LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE PALEY HONORS CENTER FOR MEDIA$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 (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM FOR SPECIAL SERVICE INC: $1k → 9%RIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 28%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
NC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 61%.

The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 18 repeat orgs$836k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
24

Total granted

$5.6M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +80%
  • WM
    WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +161%
  • HM
    Horace Mann School
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PF
    PANZI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CF
    CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue -64%
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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Musicians Aid Society of New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,400,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYHorace Mann School: $1,010,000 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolKHAN ACADEMY INC: $300,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 · EducationONE KID ONE WORLD: $142,640 · Education+3 more: $37,500 · EducationWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,169,600 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN…INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $129,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJEC…Museum of Modern Art: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art+6 more: $119,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $449,600 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPEC…Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant …THE SHANE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherTHE SHANE FOUNDAT…NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $85,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTE…NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN: $75,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTE…WORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $65,000 · OtherWORLD OF CHILDREN…HORACE MANN SENIOR GIFT: $60,000 · OtherHORACE MANN SENIO…+12 more: $68,215 · Other+12 morePANZI FOUNDATION: $250,000 · InternationalCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $98,489 · InternationalNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 · HealthWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $15,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthKATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP: $10,000 · HealthKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY HARVEST INC: $127,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$3,040,140Arts & Culture$1,518,100Other$997,815International$348,489Health$300,000Recreation & Sports$275,000Food & Nutrition$127,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $1,400,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,169,600 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHorace Mann School: $1,010,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPANZI FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE KID ONE WORLD: $142,640 over 4y, 32% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $129,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $127,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $98,489 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNorthwestern University: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSan Angelo Museum of Fine Arts: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFull Spectrum Features NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $10,214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATONAH-BEDFORD HILLS VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetROSIE'S THEATER KIDS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSSP INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Tides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY13.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report 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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Find your warmest path to The Daniel Benton and Stephanie March Family Foundation F/K/A Lisabeth Fdn 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 47 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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