Funding search · EIN 870679599 · Salt Lake City, UT

The Benjamin Foundation

Name: The Benjamin Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

41
grants reported: $1.5M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $10,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

causes education humanitarian literature

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Foundation Escalera2 grants · $620,000
O2 Utah Foundation3 grants · $300,000
Wilderness Workshop3 grants · $145,000
Epik Deliberate Digital1 grant · $70,000
Mark Garbett2 grants · $49,500
U of U College of Humanities2 grants · $45,000
Wonderbloom1 grant · $42,000
Byu Equitable Education2 grants · $30,000
Interweave1 grant · $28,185
Fight Against Domestic Violence3 grants · $25,000

Giving over time

$258,185

2022

$358,750

2023

$894,000

2024

Grant history

All 41 reported grants, largest first.

$600,000
Foundation Escalera · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$100,000
O2 Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$100,000
O2 Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$100,000
O2 Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$70,000
Epik Deliberate Digital · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$55,000
Wilderness Workshop · Carbondale, CO · 2023
Charitable causes
$50,000
Wilderness Workshop · Carbondale, CO · 2024
Charitable causes
$44,000
Mark Garbett · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Literature and education
$42,000
Wonderbloom · Murray, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$40,000
Wilderness Workshop · Carbondale, CO · 2022
Charitable causes
$28,185
Interweave · Provo, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$25,000
U of U College of Humanities · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Education
$20,000
Salt Lake Choral Artists · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$20,000
Seven Canyons Trust · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$20,000
U of U College of Humanities · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Education
$20,000
Foundation Escalera · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$15,000
Byu Equitable Education · Provo, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$15,000
Byu Equitable Education · Provo, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$10,000
Byu Hawaii Lds Philanthropies · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$10,000
Fight Against Domestic Violence · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$10,000
Uc San Diego Foundation · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Charitable causes
$10,000
Bridge To Turkiye Fund · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Charitable causes
$10,000
Centro Hispano · Provo, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$10,000
Fight Against Domestic Violence · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$10,000
Southern Sudan Humanitarian · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Humanitarian aid
$10,000
American Indian Services · Lehi, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$10,000
Southern Sudan Humanitarian · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Humanitarian aid
$5,500
Mark Garbett · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Literature and education
$5,000
Family Promise of Ogden · Ogden, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$5,000
Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$5,000
Aspen Magdalene House · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$5,000
Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$5,000
Child Aid · Portland, OR · 2022
Charitable causes
$5,000
Fight Against Domestic Violence · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$5,000
Flourish Bakery · Midvale, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$5,000
Girl Scouts of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$5,000
Utah Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Charitable causes
$2,500
Utah Council of the Blind · Bountiful, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$2,250
Building Youth Around the World · Murray, UT · 2023
Charitable causes
$1,000
Canines With a Cause · Holladay, UT · 2024
Charitable causes
$500
The Single Parent Project · Riverton, UT · 2024
Charitable causes

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