Work cat.: Danker, F.W. Benefactor : epigraphic study of a Graeco-Roman and New Testament semantic field, 1982 (Benefactor)

Web. 3 (One that gives help or confers a benefit)

Oxford dictionaries website, Mar. 3, 2017 (benefactor: A person who gives money or other help to a person or cause; donor 1. A person who donates something, especially money to charity)

Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Mar. 3, 2017 (benefactor : someone or something that provides help or an advantage : one that confers a benefit a benefactor of humankind; especially : a person who makes a gift or bequest; donor 1 : one that gives, donates, or presents something)