Illinois · Nonprofit
BENJA PROJECT
BENJA PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,667 to it, the largest being RITA B KEEFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Benja Project does
Mission
To Provide Health, Education, Housing, and General Welfare of orphans or underserved children in the Kasana Luwero region of Uganda, where the founders adopted son is from.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Construction of Kamwano Primary School, located in Kamwano Village, sub parish, within the Kasana Luwero diocese. 100-300 people/children benefitted, including support for orphans. Jobs for teaching construction and access to water from catchment system will serve larger village community.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $130 → $143.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 BENJA PROJECT’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
BENJA PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of BENJA PROJECT's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $667 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BENJA PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,562 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,562 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like BENJA PROJECT
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENJA PROJECT: 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 BENJA PROJECT?
- BENJA PROJECT (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,667 to it, the largest being RITA B KEEFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENJA PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,667 in grants to BENJA PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENJA PROJECT?
- RITA B KEEFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENJA PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing