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The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$384k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$43k33%
FY202412$46k17%
FY20237$36k14%
FY202212$35k8%
FY20219$46k22%
FY202014$34k43%
FY20194$7k50%
FY201814$52k36%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$81kArts & Culture$70kFood & Nutrition$35kCommunity Improvement$31kHousing & Shelter$30kEnvironment$27kRecreation & Sports$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($94k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $35,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard Conservation Society Inc: $25,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCaffe Lena Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIsland Housing Trust Corporation: $19,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIsland Grown Initiative Ltd: $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCircuit Arts Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNew York Women's Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTogether Helping Others Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $3,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Global Hunger Project: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSense of Wonder Creations Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeatherstone Center for the Arts Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChilmark Volunteer Firemans Assn Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pink Agenda Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Law Center: $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 24.

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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.

Stonehouse IncMA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stonehouse Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay Esq · South Mountain Company Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee

How much does The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee give?
The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee reported 9 grants totaling $42,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (24%), Arts & Culture (21%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Save The Children Federation Inc ($38k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($36k), Vineyard Conservation Society Inc ($25k).
Does The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee 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 Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stonehouse Inc, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay Esq.
Where is The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee based?
The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee is based in NY.

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 43 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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