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.

The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee

The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee at a glance

· Private foundation

The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee

Q: Where is The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee based?

The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee is based in NY.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $33k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$384k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$10,000
VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY	$5,000
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE	$5,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
SOHO ALLIANCE	$5,000
CIRCUIT ARTS	$3,000
THE WAKEMAN CENTER	$2,500
MARTHA'S VINEYARD ISLAND HOUSING TRUST	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$236k · 18 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$236k

$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%

+38%

Still filing today

56%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentReligionOther

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

Save The Children Federation Inc
7× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +21%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +98%
IH
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION
5× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +283%

Funded once

CL
CAFFE LENA INC
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +13%
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +908%
WC
WORLD CENTERAL KITCHEN
one grant, 2024 · $10k

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.

Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International

Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition

Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International

Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc

Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.

Philanthropy

Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition

CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

Field & Fork Network

Field & fork network connects communities to innovative solutions that foster a sustainable food system. the 4 areas of focus include: food access, agriculture economic development, youth development and healthy neighborhoods.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sense of Wonder Creations Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$119,778International$86,050Arts & Culture$59,500Environment$26,500Housing & Shelter$19,500Food & Nutrition$18,000Human Services$10,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen Benham Foundation Helen Benham Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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