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The Ted and Laurie Beneski Foundation at a glance

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The Ted and Laurie Beneski Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$831k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$12MHealth$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $625k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$625,000
AMHERST COLLEGE$200,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$3,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE$1,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,000
MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION & RESEARCH$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOGEL ALCOVE: $1k → 14%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $5k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 5 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$12M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+61%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.3M · revenue +141%
  • TU
    Trinity University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +83%
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +428%
  • SB
    SOUTHINGTON BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
4
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
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
10
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
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $9,350,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESTrinity University: $2,375,000 · EducationTrinity University+1 more: $2,500 · EducationNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $20,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $8,000 · OtherSOUTHINGTON BOARD OF EDUCATION: $7,265 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherStuttering Foundation of America: $3,000 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8,248 · HealthMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $5,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOLLEYVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Education$11,727,500Other$44,465Health$15,748Human Services$6,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $9,350,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTrinity University: $2,375,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $8,248 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEYVILLE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Ted and Laurie Beneski Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ted and Laurie Beneski Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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