Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BENCH MARK PROGRAM
BENCH MARK PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,456,158 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($428,890). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Bench Mark Program does
Mission
Bench Mark Program's mission is to provide multi-year, positive mentorship to high risk youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
This is our 12th year operating our open gym program. During regular operations, we serve an average of more than 60 youth each night, equating to hundreds of individual youth annually through this program alone
$876,418 spent$221,050 earned by the program46% of program spendingA 5-day program with an evidence-based curriculum that serves students as an alternative to out-of-school suspension within the school district of lancaster.
$194,417 spent10% of program spendingWe are in our fourth year of operating our predisposition program,which provides 1:1 mentoring to high-risk youth with gun crime charges.
$284,434 spent15% of program spendingIn addition to these programs, we are operating within the following branch site locations: lancaster county youth intervention center, columbia high school, and lincoln middle school where we serve about 10 students per day per branch site.
$538,950 spent28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,894,219.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $502k to $1.2M (+138%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 28% · 2022 21% · 2023 42% · 2024 44% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BENCH MARK PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Cory Robison
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $32k → $224k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BENCH MARK PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BENCH MARK PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BENCH MARK PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 52% · 2019 77% · 2020 61% · 2021 42% · 2022 19% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of BENCH MARK PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of BENCH MARK PROGRAM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $551k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $905k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BENCH MARK PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 390 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BENCH MARK PROGRAM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENCH MARK PROGRAM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENCH MARK PROGRAM?
- BENCH MARK PROGRAM (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,456,158 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($428,890). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BENCH MARK PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,456,158 in grants to BENCH MARK PROGRAM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENCH MARK PROGRAM?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $428,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENCH MARK PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing