How much does Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust give?

Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust reported 19 grants totaling $83,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (18%), Education (15%).

Who are Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Stonington Free Library Inc ($71k), Maine Island Trail Association ($47k), Maine Coast Heritage Trust ($45k).

Does Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust 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 Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Dxn Foundation.

Where is Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust based?

Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust is based in TX.

Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust

Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust

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.

$84k

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.

Environment$134kArts & Culture$91kEducation$76kHuman Services$66kScience & Tech$34kRecreation & Sports$25kPublic Benefit$18kReligion$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $54k
$10k–50k3 grants · $30k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$822k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY	$10,000
WARM CENTER	$10,000
CHRIST CHURCH	$10,000
UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	$5,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST	$5,000
TURNING POINT USA	$5,000
DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER	$5,000
YMCA - MYSTIC BRANCH	$5,000
THE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER	$5,000
BRASS FOUNDATION	$5,000
MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION	$5,000
MAINE SEACOAST MISSION	$3,000
EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC	$3,000
JUDICIAL WATCH	$2,000
STONINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION	$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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$442k · 25 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$442k

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

Still filing today

88%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

Maine Island Trail Association
9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +55%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +106%
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THE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +40%

Funded once

RC
Riverflow Community Inc
one grant, 2024 · $10k
RA
RAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -90%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $4k

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.

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

Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

Somerset Woods Trustees

To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.

Environment

Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment

Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.

Environment

Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment

Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc

Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.

Environment

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment

Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture

Aspetuck Land Trust

Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.

Environment

Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History

Arts & Culture

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ragnot Amateur Sailing Association of Texas. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 48 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)

33/34

Grantees still filing

18/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$174,500Environment$134,000Education$72,500Arts & Culture$60,000Philanthropy$39,000Human Services$24,000Recreation & Sports$14,000

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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dxn Foundation · Castle Family Foundation · The Michael & Dudley Delbalso Charitable Trust · Royce Family Fund Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fromson Foundation Inc · The James P Verhalen Family Fdn Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation

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 Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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