Spiritual benefactor that is after information (5)
I believe the answer is:
genie
'spiritual benefactor' is the definition.
'that is after information' is the wordplay.
'that is' becomes 'ie' ('i.e.' can be a synonym of 'that is').
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'information' becomes 'gen' (gen is a kind of information**).
'ie' put after 'gen' is 'GENIE'.
(Other definitions for genie that I've seen before include "Magician residing in a lamp" , "Bottled spirit?" , "In Arabian Nights, a magic goblin" , "Spirit in a bottle" , "He came from Aladdin's lamp" .)