adj. 25B6; adjective
a benevolent patriarch : KIND, kindly, kind-hearted, big-hearted, good-natured, good, benign, compassionate, caring, altruistic, humanitarian, philanthropic; generous, magnanimous, munificent, unselfish, open-handed, beneficent; poetic/literary bounteous.
a benevolent institution : CHARITABLE, non-profit-making, non-profit, not-for-profit; formal eleemosynary.
unkind, tight-fisted.