Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 3934469% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,411 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Brookline Community Foundation Inclocal
- Boston Schools Fundportfolio match
- Strategic Grant Partners Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
0% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $44k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Benjamin Franklin Educational Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Brookline Community Foundation InclocalMA · funds 39 organizations near you
- Boston Schools Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Strategic Grant Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edvestors Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hausman Family Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spooner John and Susan Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbhportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Building Hope Holdings Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The McEwen Family Scholarship Fund at Modern Group Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Zeckhauser Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brickell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pptr II Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
35% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
26%
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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY FOUNDATION ($400). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $400 in grants to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENJAMIN FRANKLIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing