Beneficence is a 1937 bronze statue on the campus of Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana.

French entrusted architect Richard Henry Dana to choose a location for the statue and to design the surrounding promenade.

More than 11,000 individuals, including children, donated money to assist in completing the memorial, and Beneficence was dedicated on September 26, 1937.

[7] Beneficence resembles earlier examples of French's work, such as Angel of the Waters, part of a memorial to businessman and philanthropist George Robert White in the Boston Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, and The Spirit of Life in Saratoga Springs, New York.

In the same year Beneficence was dedicated, 1937, Daniel Chester French's protege, Edith Barretto Stevens Parsons, cast another famous statue on campus, the Frog Baby Fountain.