· Private foundation
Trust for the Benefit of Charitable
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| MUSICOPIA | $5,000 |
| WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $5,000 |
| STUDENT PARTNER ALLIANCE | $4,000 |
| SESAME WORKSHOP | $3,500 |
| OPERA CAROLINA | $3,500 |
| GLIMMERGLAS OPERA | $3,500 |
| PORTLAND OPERA ASSOC INC | $3,000 |
| OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMUSICOPIA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +308%
- WFWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +43%
- YIYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- ASAAUW-WA SPECIAL PROJECTS FUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -24%
- HMHETRICK MARTIN INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $3k
- HGHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +149%
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.
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
To bring traditional opera and newly commissioned opera to new audiences in non-traditional venues and to give opera performance singing opportunities. to teach the beauty of opera to elementary school children
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Opera america, inc. ("opera america") was founded to: (i) promote growth and expansion of the operatic art form; (ii) foster and improve the education, training and development of operatic composers, singers and allied talent (iii) assist…
Opera columbus enriches central ohio by educating, enlightening, and entertaining people of all ages and backgrounds through the live music theatre experience by employing a diverse and far-flung supply of creative talent, ideas and…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
How this is measured
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 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AAUW-WA SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trust for the Benefit of Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust for the Benefit of Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.
- Portland Opera Association Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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